1st Edition

Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning Speaking Blackness in Brazil

By Uju Anya Copyright 2017
264 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 42 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil provides a critical overview and original sociolinguistic analysis of the African American experience in second language learning. More broadly, this book introduces the idea of second language learning as "transformative socialization": how learners, instructors, and their communities shape new communicative selves... Read more

Introduction: Why a book on race in language learning?

Chapter 1: The African American experience in language study: A review of the research

Chapter 2: Translanguaging identities

Chapter 3: Telling black stories in language learning research

Chapter 4: Nina’s story: Race and ethnicity in classrooms and outside

Chapter 5: Didier’s story: Translanguaging black manhood in multicultural contexts

Chapter 6: Leti’s story: The racialized, gendered, and social classed body

Chapter 7: Rose’s story: Redefining participation and success

Chapter 8: Communities and investments in learning a new language

Biography

Uju Anya is Assistant Professor of Second Language Learning in the College of Education at Pennsylvania State University

"This compelling and erudite volume should be required reading for foreign language educators and study abroad professionals." –Celeste Kinginger, Department of Applied Linguistics, Pennsylvania State University, USA