The Continuum of Racial Literacies
Teacher Practices Countering Whitestream Bilingual Education
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13682804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laura C Chávez-Moreno (0000-0002-6804-4961, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 108-132 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-15 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in the Teaching of English (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-527X • E-ISSN: 1943-2348 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.58680/rte202232151 |
| OpenAlex | W4381125995 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 45 |
An equitable education for linguistically minoritized and racialized-Othered youth fosters their biliteracy and critical consciousness about racial ideologies. Yet little is known about how or whether secondary-level dual-language bilingual-education programs and teachers seek to enhance students’ critical consciousness—especially as a means of grappling with racist ideologies. Drawing together literacy and race studies in education, I theorize a continuum of racial literacies, then employ it to examine dual-language curriculum and instruction practices. I use interview and classroom-observation data to reveal that a racially diverse dual-language program offered more racial-literacy practices on the hegemonic end of the continuum than the counterhegemonic end. Using teachers’ practices as an index of their program’s stance on racial literacy, I argue that the program provided a whitestream bilingual education: it offered biliteracy schooling through hegemonic racial-literacy practices that perpetuate white supremacy. The teachers’ successes and challenges speak to the need for structural attention to resources, training, and program-wide support for critical-racial-literacy practices. I conclude the article by joining calls for bilingual education to enhance youths’ critical-racial consciousness, adding racial to signal the need to be intentional in teaching about and countering racism, colonialism, and imperialism
Bilingual education · Consciousness raising · Critical consciousness · Critical literacy · Critical race theory · Curriculum · Hegemony · Ideology · Literacy · Pedagogy · Political science · Politics · Racism · Sociology · White supremacy · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy
Supporting Multilingual Learners Through Translanguaging Pedagogy in U.S. K–12 STEM Classrooms
“Nobody’s Telling Us the Truth—We Have to Ask Questions”
Writing and Reading Qualitative Characters
Language Ideologies of Administrators, Teachers, and Parents in Dual Language Programs
A Raciolinguistic and Racial Realist Critique of Dual Language’s Racial Integration
Missed opportunities and implementational spaces for developing critical consciousness
Transborder bilanguaging humor in elementary school
Dual language bilingual education for racial justice
Racist and Raciolinguistic Teacher Ideologies
Annotated Bibliography of Research in the Teaching of English
Literacy
A Tale of Two Visions
Reframing the Debate on Language Separation
Literacy in Theory and Practice
Race, empire, and English language teaching
Dual language programs as a strand within a secondary school
Ethnographic Interview
Juárez Girls Rising
Engaging Double Binds for Critical Inquiry With First-Grade Latina/O Emergent Bilinguals
Critical Literacy for Xenophobia
We Always Talk About Race”
Translanguaging, Coloniality, and English Classrooms
Building Worlds and Identities
Interests and conflicts
Puerto Rican Subjective Locations
Sustaining a Dual Language Immersion Program
Promoting Sociopolitical Consciousness and Bicultural Goals of Dual Language Education
Dual language teachers’ stated barriers to implementation of culturally relevant pedagogy
Bilingual education for self-determination
Critically assessing the 1968 Bilingual Education Act at 50 years
Learning to Value English
English teachers’ racial literacy knowledge and practice
Interrupting the interruption
Dis-connections in “American” Citizenship and the Post/neo-colonial
But Good Intentions are Not Enough
Racist and Raciolinguistic Teacher Ideologies
Racial literacy in a second‐grade classroom
U.S. Empire and an Immigrant’s Counternarrative
From Racial Liberalism to Racial Literacy
Critiquing Racial Literacy
Dual Language as White Property
Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Second Edition
Antiracist Pedagogy and Empowerment in a Bilingual Classroom in the U.S., circa 2006
Missing the (Student Achievement) Forest for All the (Political) Trees
Bilingualism, Biliteracy, Biculturalism, and Critical Consciousness for All
But What Can I Do
Contextual Challenges to Dual-Language Education
| Citations per year | 2.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |