Mimi Yang

Carthage College United States of America

Mimi Yang, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita at Carthage College, Wisconsin, USA. Trilingual in English, Spanish, and Chinese, she is a prolific author on various topics in culture and language studies. These include Latin American culture and literary studies, US history and culture, Hispanics in the United States, and the Chinese American experience. Her book Tricultural Personality (Chinese, Hispanic, English): A Paradigm for Connecting Cultural Differences (Edwin Mellen Press, 2014) has gained international traction. She is a recipient of a research fellowship from the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Wisconsin Global Educator Award in Higher Education. Multilingualism defines her life and career.

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Latest work with IntechOpen by Mimi Yang

Most people across the globe are bilingual, trilingual, or simply polyglots. This book engages in an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach to 21st-century multilingualism, not only as a linguistic phenomenon but also as a perpetual, ever-changing human condition in an interconnected and digital age. It maps out how languages interact with one another in power dynamics, identity formations, cultural preservations, teaching pedagogies, and empirical applications. Across the globe, the chapter authors examine multilingualism from African, East/South Asian, European, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and North American contexts. The book invites readers to engage in multilingualism in a macro universe, as well as in a particular micro realm.

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Multilingualism in Its Multiple Dimensions

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Tracing the Roots of Anti-Chinese Sentiments in US History

By Mimi Yang

To understand and confront the ongoing Asian/Chinese hate in the USA as another pandemic virus, this article digs into the root cause in history, as anti-Chinese sentiments are nothing new but invariably in a new context and with a new trigger. A close examination of how a racial hierarchy was constructed by the dominant group sets the stage for the study. The paradoxical relationship between the American ideal of equality and the racial hierarchy is discussed in depth. In doing so, we focus on the Chinese experience in the nineteenth century—the construction of the Transcontinental Rails and the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882–1943)—to argue that the roots of anti-Chinese sentiments rest in the racial hierarchy as well as its coexistence with the lofty ideal of freedom and equality.

Part of the book: Global Perspectives on Non-Governmental Organizations

Introductory Chapter: Multilingualism in the Linguistic Empire of the English Language

By Mimi Yang

Part of the book: Multilingualism in Its Multiple Dimensions

Mimi Yang

Latest work with IntechOpen by Mimi Yang

Multilingualism in Its Multiple Dimensions

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