70.065-9 - Revitalizing Race-Radicalism in Bilingual Education

• In Event: 70.065 - Roundtable Session 27

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

During the Civil Rights Movement many bilingual education advocates positioned bilingual education within a larger political struggle against white supremacy and imperialism. Over the last several decades, bilingual education research and practice has moved away from these race-radical roots and have instead emphasize cognitive and economic benefits of bilingualism. This panel seeks to critically examine this shift in bilingual education in the hopes of revitalizing race-radicalism in bilingual education. It begins with an historical overview that documents this shift and the ways that this shift has been complicit in the marginalization of language-minoritized students. It then examines pockets of our contemporary context where race-radicalism continues to inform bilingual research and practice.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Bilingual Education Research

Chair

• Luis Urrieta, The University of Texas - Austin

Papers

• A Tale of Two Visions: Hegemonic Whiteness and Bilingual Education - Nelson Flores, University of Pennsylvania

• Challenging Race-Erased Perspectives of Language in Whitestream Bilingual Education: Toward a Race-Radical Vision - Christian J. Faltis, University of California - Davis

• A Race-Radical Vision in the Preparation of Critical Preservice Bilingual Teacher Candidates - Margarita I. Berta-Avila, California State University - Sacramento

• Toward a Race-Radical Vision in Bilingual Education Policy and Advocacy in Texas - Patricia D. López, San José State University; Brenda Oriana Fuentes, Northern Illinois University