Racing Translingualism in Composition: Toward a Race-Conscious Translingualism

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Racing Translingualism provides both theoretical and pedagogical reconsiderations of the translingual approach to language diversity by addressing the intersections of race and translingualism.   This collection extends the disciplinary conversations about translingualism by foregrounding the role race and racism play in the construction and maintenance of language differences. In doing so, the contributors examine the co-naturalization of race and language in order to theorize a race-conscious translingual praxis. The book begins by offering generative critiques of translingualism, centering on the ways in which the approach’s democratic orientation to language avoids issues of race, language, and power and appeals to colorblind racist tropes of equal opportunity. Following these critiques, contributors demonstrate the important intersections of race and translingualism by drawing upon voices typically marginalized by monolingual language ideologies and pedagogies. Finally, Racing Translingualism concludes by attending to the pedagogical implications of a race-conscious translingual praxis in writing and literacy education.   Making the case for race-conscious, rather than colorblind, theories and pedagogies, Racing Translingualism offers a unique take on how translingualism is theorized and practiced and moves the field forward through its direct consideration of the links between language, race, and racism.   Contributors: Lindsey Albracht, Steven Alvarez, Bethany Davila, Tom Do, Jaclyn Hilberg, Bruce Horner, Aja Martinez, Esther Milu, Stephanie Mosher, Yasmine Romero, Karen Rowan, Rachael Shapiro, Shawanda Stewart, Brian Stone, Victor Villanueva, Missy Watson   Contents Introduction: Racing Translingualism in Composition: Toward a Race-Conscious Translingualism | Tom Do and Karen Rowan Part I. Problematizing Translingualism in Composition 1. Rearticulating Translingualism: The Translingual Racial Project, Colorblindness, and Race Consciousness | Karen Rowan 2. Averting Colorblind Translingualism | Rachael Shapiro and Missy Watson 3. English as Past and Present Imperialism: A Translingual Narrative on Chicanx Language and Identity in the US-Mexico Borderlands | Aja Martinez 4. Embodying Culture and Identities in Social Practices: Toward a Race-Conscious Translingual Approach | Tom Do 5. Perpetually Foreign, Perpetually Deficient, and Perpetually Privileged: Exposing Microaggressions and Challenging Whiteness | Bethany Davila Part II. Toward a Race-Conscious, Anti-Racist Translingualism 6. “We Will Know Our Heroes and Our Culture”: Revisiting the Five Demands at the City University of New York toward Building Critical Transliteracies Ecologies | Lindsey Albracht 7. Toward a Decolonial Translingual Pedagogy for Black Immigrant Students | Esther Milu 8. Multilingual Speaker-Writers’ Co-stories as Part of a Race-Conscious Translingual Practice | Yasmine Romero 9. “The Alternative Is Sort of an Endless Multiplicity”: Narrative and Negotiating the Translingual | Stephanie Mosher 10. Segregated Space and Translingual Pedagogy | Jaclyn Hilberg 11. The Raciolinguistics of Translingual Literacies | Steven Alvarez 12. Participatory Research, Home Language, and Race-Conscious Translingualism | Shawanda Stewart and Brian Stone Part III. Responses Afterword: Rewriting Racing Translingualism: Difference, Labor, Opacity | Bruce Horner An Afterword: Some Thoughts | Victor Villanueva Index About the Contributors