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2018
Volume 74, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0010-096X
  • E-ISSN: 1939-9006

Abstract

In this article, we call for translingual praxis—an antiracist and decolonial pedagogy that interrogates, with students, language ideologies and their political histories. Amplifying the voices of scholars of color, we provide a rationale for and illustrate four strategies for delinking our language work from the legacies of racism and colonization.

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