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Date: 14-Jan-2025
From: Rachel Havard [Rachel.HAVARD at oup.com]
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Title: Becoming the System
Subtitle: A Raciolinguistic Genealogy of Bilingual Education in the
Post-Civil Rights Era
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Language and Race
Publication Year: 2024

Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/becoming-the-system-9780197516812?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics

Author(s): Nelson Flores

Hardback: ISBN: 9780197516812 Pages: 168 Price: U.S. $ 99.00

Abstract:

Bilingual education is usually framed as a tool of antiracism. In
Becoming the System, author Nelson Flores challenges that framework by
examining the ways that institutionalizing bilingual education in the
post-Civil Rights Era in the United States has served to maintain
rather than challenge racial hierarchies. He adopts a methodology that
he terms raciolinguistic genealogy as a point of entry for arguing
that the institutionalization of bilingual education was part of a
broader reconfiguration of race in the postcolonial era. This
reconfiguration located the root of racial inequities within a
psychologically damaged racialized subject who, after having
experienced multiple generations of racial oppression, had either from
a liberal perspective developed a culture of poverty or a radical
perspective developed colonized mindset that prevented racial
progress. After examining the ways that this psychologically damaged
racialized subject provided the ideological foundation for the
Bilingual Education Act (BEA), Flores then examines how
institutionalizing the BEA produced a cadre of Latinx professionals
who were afforded contingent proximity to whiteness in exchange for
their acceptance of deficit framings of Latinx communities.

He goes on to examine the ways that this institutionalization helped
pave the way for neoliberal educational reforms that serve to maintain
the racial status quo. This has culminated in the exponential growth
of dual language education as a commodity for affluent monolingual
white families even as the bilingualism of Latinx communities continue
to be pathologized and policed. Flores concludes by implicating
himself as a Latinx professional working in bilingual education in
this political incorporation and posits the present volume as
resistance to the commodification and weaponization of Latinx
bilingualism.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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