Affirming Blackness, Indigenous, and Muslim Cultural Memory in Bilingual Education: What We Don't Say, but Imply

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Sesion 4
  In Roundtable Session: Preparing and Sustaining Bilingual Teachers in Antiracist, Socially Just, and Culturally Affirming Pedagogies

Abstract

In this article, we present a call to action in bilingual education for addressing Anti-Blackness, Anti-Indigenous, and Anti-Muslim within the field and particularly for classroom educators and teacher educators. Through the use of personal testimonios, we share our experiences with racism to provide a lens of inquiry. Now more than ever as a field committed to social justice, we must do our part in countering the colonizing practices that have led to the silencing of Black Latino, Indigenous, and Muslim communities. The deaths and murders of George Floyd, Brianna Taylor, and Jacob Blake have led to the “Say Their Name Movement” in the United States which contends to address the systemic racism that has plagued our nation.

Authors

• Margarita Machado-Casas, San Diego State University

• Katherine Espinoza, Texas A&M University-San Antonio