This article reviews literature on US bilingual education that addresses white supremacy
and racism, specifically pertaining to Latinx youth and their teachers. To illustrate the wide …

As Spanish heritage courses multiply all over the United States, the need to reexamine the
curriculum and pedagogical approaches that are most appropriate to meet instructional …

Language is a means of communication but it functions as much more than this in social life.
In emergencies and disasters, it can also be a matter of life and death. Language barriers …

As globalization has increased awareness of the extent of language contact and linguistic
diversity, questions concerning bilingualism and multilingualism have taken on an …

The commitment of sociocultural linguistics to the cause of social justice has been central to
the discipline since its foundation. This commitment is nowhere more evident than in the …

Critical language awareness (CLA) is increasingly identified as a central component of the
Spanish heritage language (SHL) classroom (Leeman, 2005; Martínez, 2003; among …

Shortlisted for the 2018 BAAL Book Prize This book is a sociolinguistic ethnography of LGBT
Mexicans/Latinxs in Phoenix, Arizona, a major metropolitan area in the US Southwest. The …

Bilingualism has given rise to significant changes in Spanish-speaking countries. In the US,
the increasing importance of Spanish has engendered an English-only movement; in Peru …

Within the discussion of the dynamics of Spanish language maintenance and shift to English
in the southwestern US, this article takes a magnifying glass to one Southwest state in …

This study asserts that when ethnic or minority groups perceive themselves to be under
linguistic pressures to conform to the dominant culture and language, they will be less …