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Discourses of Racist Nativism in California Public Education

English Dominance as Racist Nativist Microaggressions

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ID8924017
AuthorsLindsay Pérez Huber (0009-0006-4283-7839, University of California, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume47
Issue4
Pages379-401
Publication date2011-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueEducational Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0013-1946 • E-ISSN: 1532-6993
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00131946.2011.589301
OpenAlexW2154134757
LanguageEN
Citations received73
References cited50

This article uses a Latina/o critical theory framework (LatCrit), as a branch of critical race theory (CRT) in education, to understand how discourses of racist nativism—the institutionalized ways people perceive, understand and make sense of contemporary US immigration, that justifies native (white) dominance, and reinforces hegemonic power—emerge in California public K–12 education for Chicana students. I use data from 40 testimonio interviews with 20 undocumented and US-born Chicana students, to show how racist nativist discourses have been institutionalized in California public education by English hegemony, that maintains social, political, and economic dominance over Latina/o students and communities, regardless of actual nativity. Teacher practices of English dominance is a manifestation of this hegemony that can be articulated by the concept of racist nativist microaggression—systemic, everyday forms of racist nativism that are subtle, layered, and cumulative verbal and non-verbal assaults directed toward People of Color

Critical race theory · Dominance (genetics · Hegemony · Immigration · Political science · Politics · Power structure · Psychological nativism · Racism · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Education and experiences of immigrants and refugees · Gender Studies · Law · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research

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