Pursuing Racial and Linguistic Justice: (Re)constructing Teacher Education for Black Students and Black Language

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Abstract

This case study research explores the experience of four preservice teachers who were students in a language arts methods course grounded in Black epistemologies. This space invited them to explore language at the intersection of race and power to interrogate their own ideologies about language, and about Black Language, develop critical capacities to investigate linguistic oppression and combat anti-Black linguistic racism, explore and uncover language as the invisible aspect of the ELA curriculum (McClain et al. 2021), and (re)construct a language education that affirms and values the racial and linguistic backgrounds and experiences of Black students (Baker-Bell, 2020).

Author

• Jasmyn K. Jones, University of Memphis