1st Edition
Advocating for Sociolinguistic Justice in the United States Empowering Spanish-speaking Communities
Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1: Raising Awareness of The Cultural and Linguistic Wealth of Multilingual Communities
Chapter 1: Literacy Pedagogies in Tension: Young Latiné Children Literacy Competencies in the Rural Midwest, Laura Anna Edwards
Chapter 2: Signs of Language Justice? Solidarity, Belonging, and Strategies for Fostering Linguistic Equity, Jhonni Rochelle Charisse Carr
Chapter 3: Heritage Spanish in the News: Understanding, Reevaluating, and Embracing One’s Heritage Language on the National Stage, Meghann Peace
Part 2: Inspiring Paths for Empowering Members of Multilingual Communities
Chapter 4: Discursively Silencing Latinx Child Immigrants in United States Mainstream Media, Megan Strom
Chapter 5: “En Busca de un Mejor Futuro”: Interpreting for Undocumented Children in the Greater New Orleans Area as a Means of Advocating for Social Justice, Lisbeth A. Philip and Silvia Gómez Juárez
Chapter 6: Public Verbal Violence against Spanish-Speaking Migrants in the USA, Mercedes Niño-Murcia
Chapter 7: The Role of Heritage Bilingualism in Bringing Social Justice to Research, Ethan Kutlu and Diego Pascual y Cabo
Part 3: Providing a Path for Educational Parity for Multilingual Students
Chapter 8: The Language/Linguistics Classroom as a Decolonizing Space through the Use of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies, Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia
Chapter 9: Aprender con el Corazón: Awakening Consciousness and Negotiating Identity in the Name of Equity and Social Justice in the SHL Classroom, Gabriela Moreno
Chapter 10: The Fallacy of Academic Accountability for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners: How the Linguistic Features of High-Stakes Tests Structure Inequity, Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza
Chapter 11: Unlocking Word Structure in School: A Vehicle for Social Justice for Multilingual Learners, Michelle A. Duffy and Jean Ann
Chapter 12: Promoting Awareness of Social Justice Issues through Technology-Mediated Project-Based Language Learning, Ruslan Suvorov and Jesse Gleason
Index
Biography
Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) is a Professor of Sociolinguistics specializing in Latinx communities at California State University San Marcos.
Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza is Professor of Spanish and Linguistics in the Department of Languages and Linguistics at New Mexico State University, USA.
Mercedes Niño-Murcia is Professor Emerita of Hispanic Linguistics in the Departments of Linguistics and Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Iowa, USA.
