Reliving Prop 227: Bilingual Latinx educator trajectories amid conditional citizenship

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Abstract

This collaborative Scholarly Personal Narrative (SPN) by two former elementary school teachers considers the shock, impact, and legacy of the 1998 ban on bilingual education in California public schools. In this study, the authors, currently faculty at a large public university, juxtapose their personal reflections from their time as bilingual teachers in Southern California to today’s resurgent state-sponsored xenophobic political climate. In order to highlight the recurring nature of White supremacy as manifested through state-sponsored xenophobia, the authors posit that the act of remembering neglected or distorted histories by resisting the organized forgetting underwritten by the state functions as an intervention in current landscapes of anti-immigrant hostility and White supremacy.

Authors

• Annette Beauchamp, University of Minnesota

• Ramon Vasquez, University of Minnesota