Ofelia García is a distinguished Professor at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA, contributing to Ph.D. programs in Urban Education and Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages. She also serves as Associate General Editor for the International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Her scholarship delves into bilingual education and language policy, exploring how language shapes identity and how more equitable educational experiences can be fostered for all learners. Through a sociolinguistic and critical pedagogy lens, she analyzes the complexities and possibilities within multilingual communities.
Aimed at the general reader as well as language specialists and sociolinguists, this text presents a dicussion on the role that languages other than English have had, and continue to have, in the life of New York.