Toward a Queer-Raciolinguistic Perspective: (Re)New(ed) Approaches for Considering Education Politics and Policy

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Abstract

To consider anew the compounding intricacies of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality in education policy, I outline a queer-raciolinguistic analytical framework. This framework draws on foundational literature in raciolinguistics, queer linguistics, and relevant intersectional social theories. More specifically, a queer-raciolinguistic framework seeks to facilitate the critical evaluation of education policies and other text-based data that reference or otherwise implicate racial, ethnic, gender, and sexual subjects and subjectivities—prioritizing equally the stultifying effects of racism, sexism, and cisheterosexism. In doing so, I recognize that quare and queer of color critique theorists have compellingly argued (or at least implied) that there are scientific and political imperatives to denote the level balancing of these socio-politically ascribed and marginalized identity axes in scholarship.

Author

• Taylor Masamitsu