Raciolinguistic Perspectives on Language and Schooling

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel seeks to critically interrogate the possibilities of developing raciolinguistics as an interdisciplinary approach to examining the ways that language and race and historically and continue to be co-constructed in US society. The panel draws on varying theoretical viewpoints in order to identify the limits in current approaches to studying the intersection of language and race and to identify new approaches that seek to shift the focus away from modifying the linguistic practices of racialized students toward the systems of oppression that these racialized students confront on a daily basis.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 3: Social Context of Multiple Languages and Literacies

Chair

• Nelson Flores, University of Pennsylvania

Papers

• The Specter of the Semilingual - Nelson Flores, University of Pennsylvania

• Challenging Raciolinguistic Ideologies Through Writing Research: The Case of a Long-Term English Learner - Maneka Deanna Brooks, Texas State University

• Rethinking Nativeness: The Discursive Invention of the Racialized (non)Native Speakered Subject - Geeta A Aneja, University of Pennsylvania

• Valuing African American English in the Classroom - Anne Harper Charity-Hudley, College of William and Mary

Discussant

• H. Samy Alim, Stanford University