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OverviewBilingual 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nelson Flores (Associate Professor, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 0.30cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.830kg ISBN: 9780197516812ISBN 10: 0197516815 Pages: 168 Publication Date: 01 September 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsChapter 1: One School's Journey through the Post-Civil Rights Era Chapter 2: Raciolinguistic Genealogy as Method Chapter 3: From Community Control to Neoliberalism Chapter 4: Producing Deficiency and Erasing Colonialism in the Bilingual Education Act Chapter 5: Accountable to Semilingualism Chapter 6: The Bilingual Revolution Will Not Be Funded Chapter 7: Becoming an Entrenched Bureaucracy Chapter 8: Demanding Bilingual Choices, Receiving Bilingual Scraps Chapter 9: Selling Bilingual Education, Inheriting Racial Inequality Chapter 10: A Raciolinguistic Genealogy of the Self NotesReviewsAuthor InformationNelson Flores is an associate professor in educational linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. His research examines the intersection of language, race, and the political economy in shaping U.S. educational policies and practices. He has been the recipient of many academic awards including a 2017 Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship, the 2019 James Alatis Prize for Research on Language Planning and Policy in Educational Contexts and the 2022 AERA Early Career Award. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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