To address racial inequity and the exclusion of African Americans in applied linguistics,
second-language acquisition, and world language (WL) education, our field must reckon …

This conceptual work highlights the history of Black erasure throughout the existence of
world languages (WLs) as a field of study in the United States. It outlines the unique …

One of the ways in which White supremacy remains largely unchallenged in the context of
US Spanish-speaking communities is language (Lloréns & Dinzey-Flores, 2021). While …

We present a curricular intervention in elementary Spanish heritage language in a Hispanic
serving institution located in the US Northeast (Bronx, NYC), that aims to contextualize …

Sociolinguistic frameworks of race have not been widely applied to non-Latinx Spanish
learners in the United States. Consequently, there is limited insight into the impact of race on …

Traditional methods of teaching Spanish vocabulary often rely heavily on teacher
explanations and student memorization, which are constrained by time and space …

Racism is commonly portrayed as something only people who knowingly hate and
discriminate do. In US world language (WL) programs inclined toward multiculturalism and …

In this report, I describe the research and curricular changes I am implementing to deal with
issues of inequity encountered by Black students in the Spanish program I direct at Western …

UN World Conference against Racism 2001 in Durban, South Africa, the 2000 Regional
Conference of the Americas in Santiago de Chile, and Afrodescendants seeking freedom …

This chapter directly addresses aspiring linguists, who may feel out of place in the field,
reminding them that our field is vast and interdisciplinary, and any work with language …