El Lenguaje de la Frontera: Challenging Linguistic Terrorism in Educational Research Through Platicando

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session Fifteen
  In Roundtable Session: Critical Theory and Culturally Affirming Research in Latinx/e Scholarship (Table 5)

Abstract

This theoretical paper applies linguistic terrorism (Anzaldua, 1987) to consider how platicas rooted in Chicana feminist epistemologies (Fierros & Delgado Bernal, 2016) can attend to and challenge colonial and racist logic embedded in language hierarchies within U.S. society and in educational research. This theorization is rooted in individual and group platicas conducted with Latina immigrant mothers and Chicana/Latina undergraduates. The paper offers four central ways in which platicas challenge linguistic terrorism in educational research: 1) shared language histories and socialization serve as an entry point, 2) disrupting language hierarchies rooted in colonization and white supremacy, 3) resistance through co-creation and legitimization of language, and 4) language as fluid and the space itself as evolving and changing, emergence, differences.

Authors

• Ruby Osoria, University of California - San Diego
  Presenting Author

• Brianna R. Ramirez, University of California - San Diego
  Presenting Author