2022 Early Career Award Lecture: What Can Bilingual Education Teach Us About Race in the Post–Civil Rights Era?

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

In this presentation, I trace the roots of contemporary approaches to bilingual education within anti-Black, white settler colonial and imperialist logics that provided the foundation of the Bilingual Education Act passed in 1968. I examine the ways that these racial logics have informed contemporary framings of bilingual education as part of a broader reconfiguration of race in the post-Civil Rights era that recruited a cadre of racialized leaders into reliance on deficit ideologies as part of their advocacy for racial equity.

Sub Unit

• AERA Sessions

Chair

• Christopher Emdin, Teachers College, Columbia University

Presenter

• Nelson Flores, University of Pennsylvania