Premium
Banlieues to the Suburbs: World Language Education and Linguistic Gentrification
Author(s) -
Tebaldi Catherine
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12349
Subject(s) - gentrification , vernacular , sociology , ethnography , identity (music) , field (mathematics) , linguistics , media studies , anthropology , aesthetics , art , philosophy , civil engineering , mathematics , pure mathematics , engineering
In this “reflection on the field,” I use critical auto‐ethnography to reflect on the process of bringing urban French vernacular to New England suburbs. I analyze teaching vernacular language as linguistic gentrification, using other people’s words for the construction and continual performance of cosmopolitan whiteness. As I reflect on moving from cosmopolitan desires to critical awareness I share how my own identity is entangled in this process.