About this episode

Brynn Quick interviews Dr. Nelson Flores about his book examining the impact of bilingual education on racial hierarchies in the U.S.

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Brynn Quick sits down with Dr. Nelson Flores to discuss his 2024 book entitled Becoming the System: A Raciolinguistic Genealogy of Bilingual Education in the Post-Civil Rights Era, published by Oxford University Press. In his book, Dr. Flores examines the ways that institutionalizing bilingual education in the post-Civil Rights Era in the United States has served to maintain rather than challenge racial hierarchies. He and Brynn discuss the lasting legacies of this institutionalization within neoliberal ideologies for Spanish-English bilingual education in the United States from the post WWII era to today. For additional resources, show notes, and transcripts, go here.

People in this episode

Host: Brynn Quick

Guest: Dr. Nelson Flores

Topics covered

• bilingual education
• racial hierarchies
• post-Civil Rights Era
• neoliberal ideologies
• Spanish-English education
• institutionalization

Keywords

• bilingual education
• racial hierarchies
• neoliberal ideologies
• post-Civil Rights
• Spanish-English education
• institutionalization

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Oxford University Press

Books & works: Becoming the System: A Raciolinguistic Genealogy of Bilingual Education in the Post-Civil Rights Era

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