Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- 1. Introduction: The heritage language learner? -- 2. An emerging field of investigation: Construction of the heritage language learner as a new object of study -- 3. Ethnographic fieldwork at Jackson Japanese Language School -- 4. Betwixt and between Japanese and the heritage language learner of Japanese -- 5. Designing the heritage language learner: Modes of governmentality in the classroom -- 6. Defining the heritage language learner -- 7. Shifting frames of reference: JJLS, AP, heading college, and construction of the Japanese-as-aheritage- language learner -- 8. Adjusting the Jackson Course -- 9. Implications and departure -- Appendix 1: First Questionnaires for Parents -- Appendix 2: Second Questionnaires for Parents -- Appendix 3: First Questionnaires for Students -- Appendix 4: Second Questionnaires for Students -- Appendix 5: Questionnaires for Teachers -- Appendix 6: Questionnaires for Parents of Students Who Were Leaving or Had Left JJLS -- Appendix 7: Questionnaires for Students Who Were Leaving or Had Left JJLS -- Appendix 8: Summary of Student Interviews and Profiles -- Appendix 9: Glossary of Japanese Terms -- References -- Index