Decolonial Perspectives and Transnational Reflections on the Education of Multilingual Learners in the United States (Poster 13)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Friday 3:20 p.m.
  In Poster Session: Division G: Section 2 Poster Session

Abstract

This conceptual paper aims to problematize how colorblind ideologies and anti-critical race theory discourses affect the education of multilingual learners. This paper envisions ways of decolonizing the education of multilingual learners by identifying urgent intersections between critical race theory and raciolinguistics. Departing from my locus of enunciation as a transnational scholar and from a contrastive approach to racial landscapes of Brazil and the United States, I address the entanglements of discourses against CRT and multilingualism in U.S. classrooms and the interconnectedness of race, language, and power. I conclude that advocating for approaches that recognize the impact of racism on multilingual learners is not just essential but a matter of urgency for affirming their educational and linguistic rights.

Author

• Miriam Jorge, University of Missouri - St. Louis