Category Archives: Bilingualism

Election Guide for Immigrants: Cape Verde Edition

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Only 40-50% of adult U.S. citizens vote in the midterms (U.S. Census Bureau).  Perhaps the other 50-60% wonder: Midway between what? Statistics for participation in primaries are twice as dismal: A scant 20% of eligible voters in the U.S. typically vote in the primaries (Bipartisan Policy Center). https://aceproject.org/ace-en/topics/pc/annex/pcy/primary-elections-in-latin-america/mobile_browsing/onePag Only three other

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The Anthropology/Poetry Nexus–An Interview with Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor

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Can artists and social scientists inhabit the same universe? Melisa (“Misha”) Cahnmann-Taylor embodies that nexus. Her advanced degrees include an MFA in poetry . . . and a PhD in educational linguistics. She’s published plenty of scholarly work in academic journals and books (about language learning, sustainable or fragile states

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