Being a conduit and culprit of white language supremacy: A duo autohistoriateoría

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dc.contributor.authorCaldera, Altheria
dc.contributor.authorBabino, Ale Ruiz
dc.creator.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6618-3335
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-15T16:46:21Z
dc.date.available2023-06-15T16:46:21Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.descriptionArticle originally published in Transcontinental Human Trajectories, (8). English. Published online 2020. https://doi.org/10.25965/trahs.2660
dc.description.abstractIn this manuscript, two normalistas-teachers, who are Women of Color in the United States, reflected on our experiences as educators. In a chronological narrative structure, we each told stories related to our experiences with languages and literacy. Using Anzaldúa’s autohistoria-teoría—a decolonial research methodology—we constructed situated knowledge based on our personal reflections of our experiences. More specifically, we uncovered ways we have been conduits of white language supremacy, interrogated how white language supremacy has impacted our teaching, and revealed our growth in our stance towards linguistic justice. Through the lens of raciolinguistics, we reveal our own victimization, internalized racist linguicism, and subsequent perpetuation of linguistic imperialism. Because of our professional successes as a result of English proficiency, we bought into the myth that acquiring Standard American English was necessary to ensure the success of students with racialized identities and failed to fully value language plurality. At this point in our professional journeys, however, we are committed to work characterized by 1) a recognition of the ways language and race are inextricably entwined, 2) evidenced appreciation for non-Western language varieties, 3) use of translanguaging as resistance, 4) culturally sustaining writing instruction (Woodard, Vaughan, & Machado, 2017), and 5) multimodal communication practices. Our manuscript is important because it models the kind of vulnerability, theorization, and critical reflection necessary for scholars whose work aims for decoloniality. It represents our commitment to decolonization of the self.en_US
dc.identifier.citationThis is a published version of a paper that is available at: https://doi.org/10.25965/trahs.2660. Recommended citation: Caldera, A., & Ruiz Babino, A. (2020). Being a conduit and culprit of white language supremacy: A duo autohistoria-teoría. Transcontinental Human Trajectories, (8). This item has been deposited in accordance with publisher copyright and licensing terms and with the author’s permission.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11274/15106
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.25965/trahs.2660
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherFaculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, University of Limogesen_US
dc.rights.licenseCC BY-NC-ND 4.0
dc.subjectAutohistoria-teoríaen_US
dc.subjectDecolonization of the selfen_US
dc.subjectLinguistic justiceen_US
dc.subjectRaciolinguisticsen_US
dc.subjectTranslanguagingen_US
dc.subjectWhite language supremacyen_US
dc.titleBeing a conduit and culprit of white language supremacy: A duo autohistoriateoríaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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