Asian American Racialization: Critical Perspectives on Mandarin-English Bilingual Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

While much critical research in Spanish-English bilingual education demonstrates how market-based turns in education and racialization processes lead to inequitable pedagogical and institutional conditions for minoritized language learners, there is a dearth of critical perspectives on Mandarin-English bilingual education. As such, this panel bridges across curricular, pedagogical, and institutional experiences of students and teachers in various regional and racial contexts to illuminate the intersections of Mandarin-English bilingual education and the racialization of Asian Americans. Through ethnographic and qualitative studies of Mandarin-English bilingual programs, this panel extends theories on racializing language/languaging practices to repair misalignment between language programs and the students they serve.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Bilingual Education Research

Chair

• Zhongfeng Tian, Rutgers University - Newark

Papers

• Analyzing the Mathematics Curriculum in a Two-Way Chinese-English DLBE Program: A Raciolinguistic Perspective - Peizhu Liu, University of Pennsylvania

• Toward the Critical Consciousness Goal: Constraints and Opportunities in Secondary Mandarin Chinese Dual Language Bilingual Education Classrooms - Nuo Xu, Bowling Green State University

• Multiracial Mandarin: When Asian American racialization meets multilingual education - David Shuang Song, University of Oklahoma

• Interrogating the racialization of “heritage language learners” to broaden conceptualizations of equity - Catherine Park, University of California - Berkeley

Discussant

• Trish Morita-Mullaney, Purdue University