Lexington Books
Pages: 264
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-7936-4099-4 • Hardback • May 2023 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
978-1-7936-4100-7 • eBook • May 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Rebecca A. Campbell-Montalvo is postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction in the Neag School of Education at the University of Connecticut.
Introduction: Family and Institutional Context in Recognizing and Serving Students
Chapter 1: Historical and Current Social Forces Underpinning Latinization and School Resource Access
Chapter 2: When Spanish “Dialects” are Really Different Languages: Understanding and Supporting Language Use in School Resource Access
Chapter 3: Moving on from the Notion of Either Indigenous or Latinx, but Not Both: Consequential Construction and Treatment of Race/Ethnicity in School
Chapter 4: The Migrant Education Program: A Better Source of Recognition and Resources for Indigenous Latinx Students
Conclusion: Addressing Latinization and School Resource Access
In this valuable new book, Rebecca Campbell-Montalvo contributes to scholarly understanding of language and social justice as well as raciolinguistic enregisterment by documenting the (mis)categorization of Indigenous Latinx students within the U.S. educational system. Through careful ethnographic analysis of how bureaucratic processes of Latinization result in the linguistic and racial re-formation of Indigenous identities, Campbell-Montalvo exposes how Indigeneity is systematically erased in the institutional production of a monolithic Latinx student from a Spanish-speaking background. Her argument presents a powerful challenge to the fundamentally colonial logic underlying schools' demographic classification of Indigenous Latinx students, which results in gross inequities in access to educational resources for a diasporic community that faces multiple forms of racial and linguistic oppression.
— Mary Bucholtz, University of California, Santa Barbara