Becoming the system : a raciolinguistic genealogy of bilingual education in the post-civil rights era /
"This book examines the ways that the institutionalization of bilingual education in the post-Civil Rights era connected to two broader global reconfigurations of race. The first reconfiguration was the shift from biological to cultural conceptualizations of race. In the US context, this discur...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2024]
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| Series: | Oxford studies in language and race.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This book examines the ways that the institutionalization of bilingual education in the post-Civil Rights era connected to two broader global reconfigurations of race. The first reconfiguration was the shift from biological to cultural conceptualizations of race. In the US context, this discursive shift was produced within a complex interrelationship between liberal multiculturalism framed within social science research and race radicalism framed within self-determination struggles. At the core of both discourses was a psychologically damaged racialized subject produced either as a product of cultural deficiencies or a history of colonial oppression. This foundational logic shaped the Bilingual Education Act and its subsequent implementation in ways that recruited Latinx activists to accept longstanding deficit perspectives of their communities in order to get access to the professional positions made available by increased funding for bilingual education. The second reconfiguration is the neoliberal multicultural shift away from governmental to market-bases solutions to combating racial inequities. While the psychologically damaged racialized subjects remains at its core, neoliberal multiculturalism also embraces converse racialization that reframes racialized cultural practices as mobile resources for the consumption of affluent white communities. This converse racialization has emerged in efforts to promote bilingual education via the politics of school choice and the proliferation of dual language education in ways that further exacerbate existing racial inequities in the name of offering bilingual education as an option for all. The book ends with a personal reflection that situates my own lived experience within the broader (re)configurations of race analyzed throughout the book"--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 157 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780197516850 0197516858 9780197516843 019751684X 9780197516836 0197516831 |