Language scholars have long argued that linguistics, race, and culture are intersecting. Linguistic scholarship related to raciolinguistics today also tells us that language constructs race and that race shapes how we do language. We will look closely at this new work as we remember and locate the 1960s-1970s as central to the linguistic turn in composition studies that has centered us in these discussions.

For our part, we will push ourselves beyond looking at the ways that whiteness influences what gets considered standard and non-standard.  Instead, we will interrogate the ways that whiteness controls the entire apparatus of schooling and language.  For this week, you are going to read two articles.  Your writing task is deceptively simple because it is not easy to do: 1) define raciolinguistics and how/if you see its relevance; 2) bring all your readings into communication; 3) discuss what you think of these readings and their implications for anti-racist pedagogy. (This is RR #6).  ​

Read this as our communal text: “Unsettling Race and Language: Toward a Raciolinguistic Perspective” by Jonathan Rosa and Nelson Flores in Language in Society (2017). 

For your second article, choose ONE amongst these for our jigsaw (LINKS COMING SOON):

1. “A Critique of the Principle of Error Correction as a Theory of Social Change” by Mark Lewis in Language in Society (2018)
2. “Dismantling Anti-Black Linguistic Racism in English Language Arts Classrooms: Toward an Anti-Racist Black Language Pedagogy” by April Baker-Bell in Theory into Practice (2019)
3. “From Academic Language to Language Architecture: Challenging Raciolinguistic Ideologies in Research and Practice” by Nelson Flores in Theory into Practice (2019)
4.  “Imagining a Language of Solidarity for Black and Latinx Youth in English Language Arts Classrooms” by Danny C Martinez in English Education (2017)
5. “Leveraging Students’ Communicative Repertoires as a Tool for Equitable Learning” by Danny C. Martinez, P. Zitlali Morales, Ursula S. Aldana in Review of Research in Education (2017)
6. “Linguistic Terrorism in the Borderlands: Language Ideologies in the Narratives of Young Adults in the Rio Grande Valley” by Katherine Christoffersen in International Multilingual Research Journal (2019)
7. "Looking Closely and Listening Carefully: A Sociocultural Approach to Understanding the Complexity of Latina/o/x Students’ Everyday Language" by  Ramón Antonio Martínez & Alexander Feliciano Mejía in Theory into Practice (2019)
8. “Multilingual Writers in College Contexts” by Sara Alvarez in Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (2018)
9. “Pa'lante, Siempre Pa'lante: Pedagogies of the Home among Puerto Rican College Educated Families” by Nichole Margarita Garcia in International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education/QSE (2019)
10. “Raciolinguistic Ideology of Antiblackness: Bilingual Education, Tracking, and the Multiracial Imaginary in Urban Schools” by Kenzo K Sung in International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education/QSE (2018) [I can't download this on my computer--- here is the link to TCU Library]
11. “Racializing Language, Regimenting Latinas/os: Chronotope, Social Tense, and American Raciolinguistic Futures” by Jonathan Rosa in Language and Communication (2015)
12. “Raciolinguistic Chronotopes and the Education of Latinx Students: Resistance and Anxiety in a Bilingual School” by Nelson Flores, MC Lewis, J Phuong in in Language and Communication (2018)
13. “Standardization, Racialization, Languagelessness: Raciolinguistic Ideologies across Communicative Contexts” by Jonathan Rosa in Linguistic Anthropology (2016)
14. “A Tale of Two Visions: Hegemonic Whiteness and Bilingual Education” by Nelson Flores in Educational Policy (2015)
15. “ ‘There's No Way This Isn't Racist’: White Women Teachers and the Raciolinguistic Ideologies of Teaching Code‐Switching” by Julia Daniels in Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (2018)
16. “Undoing Appropriateness: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and Language Diversity in Education” by Nelson Flores and Jonathan Rosa in Harvard Educational Review (2015)
17. “Upending Colonial Practices: Toward Repairing Harm in English Education” by Cati de los Ríos, Danny Martinez, Adam Musser in Theory into Practice (2019)
18. “What Counts as Language Education Policy? Developing a Materialist and Anti-Racist Approach to Language Activism” by Nelson Flores & Sofia Chaparro  in Language Policy (2017)

 
Start jotting down notes for the language politics that will be on your syllabus.  Be thinking about this for the draft of your syllabus that is coming soon.  You will need to be EXPLICIT as you describe the purposes and vibe of the student language writing that you value.
 
Please submit this writing in a google folder that you maintain throughout the semester that you give me access to.  Your writing is DUE before class.  You can expect comments by the end of the week.  We will follow our zoom plan for the course and open with two presenters.