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Publication Date: 2021-Dec
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Dual Language as White Property: Examining a Secondary Bilingual-Education Program and Latinx Equity
American Educational Research Journal, v58 n6 p1107-1141 Dec 2021
This critical race ethnography examines a secondary-level dual-language (DL) program, a bilingual-education model thought to provide Latinxs educational equity. Drawing from a three-stage recursive analytic approach, I present evidence that a DL program's policies and practices valued offering Latinx youth biliterate schooling only so long as DL was available and advantageous to Whites--which ultimately excluded some Latinx students from bilingual education and/or accessing its benefits. I theorize DL functions as white property when DL perpetuates racial hierarchies and preserves the value of a white racial identity, thereby maintaining Whites' inequitable material accumulation. I problematize the logic of DL--highlighting that DL has the elitist tendencies of world-language education--and assess DL's potential to deliver educational justice to Latinxs.
Descriptors: Race, Critical Theory, Bilingualism, Bilingual Education Programs, Secondary School Students, Equal Education, Hispanic American Students, Educational Policy, Educational Practices, Whites, Literacy, Educational Benefits, Racial Identification, Advantaged, Spanish, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Ethnography, Racial Bias, Reputation, Neoliberalism, State Legislation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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