Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction: New Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Negotiation of Identities in Multilingual Contexts -- 1. 'The Making of an American': Negotiation of Identities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- 2. Constructions of Identity in Political Discourse in Multilingual Britain -- 3. Negotiating Between Bourge and Racaille: Verlan as Youth Identity Practice in Suburban Paris -- 4. Black Deaf or Deaf Black? Being Black and Deaf in Britain -- 5. Mothers and Mother Tongue: Perspectives on Self-Construction by Mothers of Pakistani Heritage -- 6. The Politics of Identity, Representation, and the Discourses of Self-identification: Negotiating the Periphery and the Center -- 7. Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore: Foreign Language Learning and Identity Reconstruction -- 8. Intersections of Literacy and Construction of Social Identities -- 9. Multilingual Writers and the Struggle for Voice in Academic Discourse -- 10. Identity and Language Use: The Politics of Speaking ESL in Schools -- 11. Sending Mixed Messages: Language Minority Education at a Japanese Public Elementary School -- Index