The roots of language protectionism / Harvey A. Daniels -- The legal status of English in Illinois: case study of a multilingual state / Dennis Baron -- Metaphors and motives of language-restriction movements / Elizabeth Frick -- The Federal English Language Amendment: prospects and peril / Elliot L. Judd -- In the aftermath of the ELA: stripping language minorities of their rights / Roseann Dueñas Gonzales -- Official English and the English profession / James C. Stalker -- Paranoia in language politics / Vivian I. Davis -- Solamente Ingés and Hispanics / Victor Villanueva, Jr. -- Anglo-conformity: folk remedy for lost hegemony / James Sledd -- Disillusionment with official English and the search for alternatives / Mary Carol Combs and Lynn M. Lynch -- The "mis-education of the negro" -and you too / Geneva Smitherman -- What one teacher can do / Harvey A. Daniels