Becoming the System : A Raciolinguistic Genealogy of Bilingual Education in the Post-Civil Rights Era.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flores, Nelson.

Series:

Oxford Studies in Language and Race Series

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (169 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2024.

Summary:

Bilingual education is usually framed as a tool of antiracism. This book challenges that framing by pointing to the ways that the foundations of modern approaches to bilingual education have their roots deficit perspectives of Latinx communities. It connects these deficit perspectives with a broader shift in discussions of race that framed racial inequities as a product of cultural and linguistic deficiencies of racialized communities as opposed to structural barriers produced by centuries of racist policies. It then examines the ways that Latinx professionals who entered the field of bilingual education were expected to adopt this deficit perspective in ways that served to maintain racial oppression.

Contents:

Cover

Becoming the System

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. One School's Journey through the Post-​Civil Rights Era

2. Raciolinguistic Genealogy as Method

3. From Community Control to Neoliberalism

4. The Bilingual Revolution Will Not Be Funded

5. Producing Deficiency and Erasing Colonialism in the Bilingual Education Act

6. Accountable to Semilingualism

7. Becoming an Entrenched Bureaucracy

8. Demanding Bilingual Choices, Receiving Bilingual Scraps

9. Selling Bilingual Education, Inheriting Racial Inequality

10. A Raciolinguistic Genealogy of the Self

Notes

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-19-751683-1

0-19-751685-8

0-19-751684-X