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In this chapter, we consider how scholars have examined the relationship between language and race/racism in education. We highlight research that makes clear the language ideologies that circulate in educational settings, the resulting educational practices that privilege and institutionalize “mainstream” language practices while marginalizing and stigmatizing “non-mainstream” language practices, and the ways that race and racism are constructed and performed through language in educational contexts. We also consider the innovative methods introduced to the field as researchers questioned the deficit ways in which theories and methods stigmatized the languages of racialized groups.
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Martinez, D.C., Martínez, R.A. (2016). Researching the Language of Race and Racism in Education. In: King, K., Lai, YJ., May, S. (eds) Research Methods in Language and Education. Encyclopedia of Language and Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02329-8_37-1
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