Becoming the System: A Raciolinguistic Genealogy of Bilingual Education in the Post-Civil Rights Era

by Flores

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197516815
• ISBN13: 9780197516812
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 168 Pages