Learning Sciences Lunch and Learn with Nelson Flores, PhD “Becoming the System: A Raciolinguistic Genealogy of Bilingual Education in the Post-Civil Rights Era”
Connect with colleagues during this in-person presentation at the GSE (Room 124). Pizza will be provided! Can’t attend in person? Join us remotely via Zoom!
In this presentation I discuss my recent book that examines the ways that institutionalizing bilingual education in the post–Civil Rights Era in the United States has served to maintain racial hierarchies. Using bilingual education as a point of entry, I critically interrogate how efforts of Latinx professionals working to transform the system in ways that promote equity in reality led them to become the system, as they were gradually molded into agents of institutions that have the primary function of maintaining the racial status quo.
Suggested Reading:
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- Flores N. Becoming the System : A Raciolinguistic Genealogy of Bilingual Education in the Post-Civil Rights Era. 1st ed. Oxford University Press, Incorporated; 2024.
- Book can be accessed for free using your Rutgers Library account
Nelson Flores is a professor in educational linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. His research examines the intersection of language and race 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.