Table Of ContentAff irming Language Diversity in Schools
and Society
‘Much has been written about language loss and of restrictive language
policies in the United States, but what makes this book important is its
broad sociocultural lens rooted in a postcolonial perspective, as well as the
analysis of local US cases within a global framework of English hegemony.
Bringing together critical scholars from around the world, the book off ers
a unique study of the historical and economic roots of English only policies
in the United States and its eff ects on the material conditions of minoritized
populations.’—Ofelia García, City University of New York, USA
Language is perhaps the most common issue that surfaces in debates over
school reform, and plays a vital role in virtually everything we are involved.
This edited volume explores linguistic apartheid, or the disappearance of
certain languages through cultural genocide by dominant European colo-
nizers and American neoconservative groups. These groups have historically
imposed hegemonic languages, such as English and French, on colonized
people at the expense of the native languages of the latter. The book traces
this form of apartheid from the colonial era to the English-only movement
in the United States, and proposes alternative ways to counter linguistic
apartheid that minority groups and students have faced in schools and soci-
ety at large.
Contributors to this volume provide a historical overview of the way
many languages labeled as inferior, minority, or simply savage have been
attacked and pushed to the margins, discriminating against and attempt-
ing to silence the voice of those who spoke and continue to speak these
languages. Further, they demonstrate the way and the extent to which such
actions have aff ected the cultural life, learning process, identity, and the
subjective and material conditions of linguistically and historically margin-
alized groups, including students.
Pierre Wilbert Orelus is assistant professor at New Mexico State Univer-
sity. His research interests include language, race, and gender studies; post-
colonial, transnational, and immigrant studies; and critical pedagogy. His
recent books include Whitecentricism and Linguoracism Exposed (2013),
The Race Talk (2012), and Radical Voices for Democratic Schooling (2012)
with Curry Malott.
Routledge Research in Education
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83 Teacher Development in Higher 90 Rethinking School Bullying
Education Dominance, Identity and School
Existing Programs, Program Culture
Impact, and Future Trends Ronald B. Jacobson
Edited by Eszter Simon
and Gabriela Pleschová 91 Language, Literacy, and
Pedagogy in Postindustrial
84 Virtual Literacies Societies
Interactive Spaces for Children The Case of Black Academic
and Young People Underachievement
Edited by Guy Merchant, Paul C. Mocombe
Julia Gillen, Jackie Marsh and Carol Tomlin
and Julia Davies
92 Education for Civic and Political
85 Geography and Social Justice in Participation
the Classroom A Critical Approach
Edited by Todd W. Kenreich Edited by Reinhold Hedtke
and Tatjana Zimenkova
86 Diversity, Intercultural
Encounters, and Education 93 Language Teaching Through the
Edited by Susana Gonçalves Ages
and Markus A. Carpenter Garon Wheeler
87 The Role of Participants in 94 Refugees, Immigrants, and
Education Research Education in the Global South
Ethics, Epistemologies, and Methods Lives in Motion
Edited by Warren Midgley, Edited by Lesley Bartlett and
Patrick Alan Danaher Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher
and Margaret Baguley
95 The Resegregation of Schools
88 Care in Education Education and Race in the
Teaching with Understanding and Twenty-First Century
Compassion Edited by Jamel K. Donnor and
Sandra Wilde Adrienne D. Dixson
89 Family, Community, and Higher 96 Autobiographical Writing and
Education Identity in EFL Education
Edited by Toby S. Jenkins Shizhou Yang
97 Online Learning and 106 Global Perspectives on
Community Cohesion Spirituality in Education
Linking Schools Edited by Jacqueline Watson,
Roger Austin and Bill Hunter Marian de Souza
and Ann Trousdale
98 Language Teachers and Teaching
Global Perspectives, Local 107 Neo-liberal Educational
Initiatives Reforms
Edited by Selim Ben Said A Critical Analysis
and Lawrence Jun Zhang Edited by David A. Turner
and Hüseyin Yolcu
99 Towards Methodologically
Inclusive Research Syntheses 108 The Politics of Pleasure in
Expanding Possibilities Sexuality Education
Harsh Suri Pleasure Bound
Edited by Louisa Allen,
100 Raising Literacy Achievement Mary Lou Rasmussen,
in High-Poverty Schools and Kathleen Quinlivan
An Evidence-Based Approach
Eithne Kennedy 109 Popular Culture, Pedagogy
and Teacher Education
101 Learning and Collective International Perspectives
Creativity Edited by Phil Benson
Activity-Theoretical and and Alice Chik
Sociocultural Studies
Annalisa Sannino and Viv Ellis 110 Teacher Training and the
Education of Black Children
102 Educational Inequalities Bringing Color into Difference
Difference and Diversity in Uvanney Maylor
Schools and Higher Education
Edited by Kalwant Bhopal 111 Secrecy and Tradecraft in
and Uvanney Maylor Educational Administration
The Covert Side of Educational
103 Education, Social Background Life
and Cognitive Ability Eugenie A. Samier
The Decline of the Social
Gary N. Marks 112 Affi rming Language Diversity
in Schools and Society
104 Education in Computer Beyond Linguistic Apartheid
Generated Environments Edited by Pierre Wilbert Orelus
Sara de Freitas
105 The Social Construction of
Meaning
Reading Literature in Uurban
English Classrooms
John Yandell
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Aff irming Language Diversity
in Schools and Society
Beyond Linguistic Apartheid
Edited by Pierre Wilbert Orelus
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Affirming language diversity in schools and society : beyond linguistic
apartheid / edited by Pierre Wilbert Orelus. — First edition.
pages cm. — (Routledge research in education)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Native language and education. 2. Linguistic
minorities—Education. 3. Language policy. 4. Multilingual
education. 5. Language attrition. I. Orelus, Pierre W.
LC201.5.A435 2013
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2013033854
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It is uncommon to fi nd a powerful and disparate group of writers such as
these focused on the issue of language, but Pierre Orelus has indeed man-
aged to bring them together to create a book that speaks equally forcefully
to teachers, teacher educators, policy makers, and researchers.
Sonia Nieto, from the foreword
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Contents
List of Tables xiii
Foreword xv
SONIA NIETO
Acknowledgments xvii
1 Introduction: Linguistic Apartheid No Más—Honoring All
Languages 1
PIERRE WILBERT ORELUS
PART I
Linguistic Apartheid in the United States:
From the Colonial to the Neocolonial Era
2 21st Century Linguistic Apartheid: English Language Learners
in Arizona Public Schools 23
MARY CAROL COMBS, ANA CHRISTINA DA SILVA IDDINGS, AND LUIS C. MOLL
3 Cultural Hegemony, Language, and the Politics of Forgetting:
Interrogating Restrictive Language Policies 35
ANTONIA DARDER
4 Reclaiming the Taino Legacy: Issues of Language, Culture, and
Identity 54
LOURDES DIAZ SOTO AND SIMONE TUINHOF DE MOED
5 Overcoming Linguistic Apartheid: Contesting the Raj’s Divide
and Rule Policies 63
VAIDEHI RAMANATHAN
