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Dual Language as White Property

Examining a Secondary Bilingual-Education Program and Latinx Equity

Bibliographic Data

ID8221663
AuthorsLaura C Chávez-Moreno (0000-0002-6804-4961, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume58
Issue6
Pages1107-1141
Publication date2021-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Educational Research Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-8312 • E-ISSN: 1935-1011
PublisherAmerican Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3102/00028312211052508
OpenAlexW3212985586
LanguageEN
Citations received42
References cited60

This critical race ethnography examines a secondary-level dual-language (DL) program, a bilingual-education model thought to provide Latinxs educational equity. Drawing from a three-stage recursive analytic approach, I present evidence that a DL program’s policies and practices valued offering Latinx youth biliterate schooling only so long as DL was available and advantageous to Whites—which ultimately excluded some Latinx students from bilingual education and/or accessing its benefits. I theorize DL functions as white property when DL perpetuates racial hierarchies and preserves the value of a white racial identity, thereby maintaining Whites’ inequitable material accumulation. I problematize the logic of DL—highlighting that DL has the elitist tendencies of world-language education—and assess DL’s potential to deliver educational justice to Latinxs

Bilingual education · Dual language · Economic Justice · Educational Equity · Epistemology · Equity (law · Ethnography · Identity (music · Neuroscience of multilingualism · Pedagogy · Political science · Property (philosophy · Sociology · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology

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Unique citing works42
Citations per year10,5
Citation span2022 - 2026 (5)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 42
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