id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt WOS-000277566100004 Paris, D oThe Second Language of the United Stateso: Youth Perspectives on Spanish in a Changing Multiethnic Community 2010 .txt text/plain 152 5 35 I also show how African American and Pacific Islander youth desired access to Spanish and used words and phrases in important ways with their Latino/a peers. In this article I explore this question by analyzing the perspectives and social interactions of students in an urban charter high school located in a community undergoing dramatic demographic shift from a predominantly African American city to a predominantly Latino/a city with a significant Pacific Islander population. cache/WOS-000277566100004.txt txt/WOS-000277566100004.txt