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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.

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