Latinx Languages and Identities Beyond Borders
Jonathan Rosa, Stanford University
Co-sponsored by School of Education and Human Development

Opening Reception 5PM, GC 118
Lecture and Discussion 6PM, GC 118

The rapid rise of the U.S. Latinx population, now the nation’s largest demographic minority group, has heightened concerns about the future of American identity and brought increased attention to the institutional management of racial, ethnic,
and linguistic diversity. Drawing on ethnographic and sociolinguistic research conducted in a predominantly Latinx Chicago public high school and its surrounding
communities, this presentation approaches Latinidad as a crucial site from which to analyze the creation of racial, linguistic, and national borders, as well as to reimagine worlds beyond these borders.

El rápido ascenso de la población latinx de los Estados Unidos, que es ahora el grupo demográfico minoritario más grande, ha generado inquietudes sobre el futuro de la identidad estadounidense y ha llevado una mayor atención hacia la gestión institucional de la diversidad racial, étnica y lingüística. Apoyándose en investigaciones etnográficas y sociolingüísticas llevadas a cabo en una escuela secundaria predominantemente latinx en Chicago y en sus comunidades cercanas, esta presentación se enfoca en la latinidad como un sitio crucial desde el cual analizar la creación de fronteras raciales, lingüísticas y nacionales, así como reinventar mundos más allá de estas fronteras.

Jonathan Rosa is Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Education, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and, by courtesy, Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics, at Stanford University. His research analyzes the interplay between racial marginalization, linguistic stigmatization, and educational inequity. Dr. Rosa collaborates with schools and communities to track these phenomena and develop tools for understanding and eradicating the forms of disparity to which they correspond. He is author of the book Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad (2019, Oxford University Press) and co-editor of the volume Language and Social Justice in Practice (2019, Routledge). Dr. Rosa’s research has appeared in scholarly journals such as the Harvard Educational Review, American Ethnologist, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, and Language in Society, as well as media outlets such as MSNBC, NPR, CNN, and Univision. He obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, and his B.A. in Linguistics and Educational Studies from Swarthmore College.