Description
Postsecondary language classrooms perpetuate racial discrimination and linguistic inequalities, posing a significant problem for racialized students who face institutional barriers and erasure of their linguistic identities. Interrogating Race and Racism in Postsecondary Language Classrooms, edited by Xiangying Huo and Clayton Smith, offers a transformative solution by confronting deeply ingrained racism, linguicism, and neo-racism in language education. Through an intersectional lens, the book exposes these issues and provides practical strategies to combat injustice, fostering inclusive learning environments.
With topics ranging from power dynamics to anti-oppressive pedagogies, the book equips readers with tools to effect meaningful change. By amplifying marginalized voices and emphasizing anti-racist and anti-colonial practices, it empowers educators and policymakers to dismantle oppressive systems. This comprehensive resource has the potential to reshape language classrooms and create equitable educational landscapes that value diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, contributing to a more just and inclusive society.
Reviews and Testimonials
The book, Interrogating Race and Racism in Postsecondary Language Classrooms provides a timely and much-needed critical lens to interrogate race and racism in postsecondary language classrooms and has important theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical implications for language teaching and raciolinguistic research.
– Xiangying Huo (University of Toronto, Canada)
Author's/Editor's Biography
Xiangying Huo (Ed.)
Dr. Xiangying Huo is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. As a writing specialist and English language learning specialist, Dr. Huo has taught English at the university level for over two decades and has taught writing across the curriculum at York University, OCAD Art and Design University, and three campuses of the University of Toronto. Dr. Huo’s research interests include writing studies, applied linguistics, anti-racism education, ESL/EFL policy and pedagogy, internationalization in higher education, intercultural and cross-cultural teaching and learning, language ideology, and World English. Dr. Huo is the editor-in-chief of Interrogating Race and Racism in Postsecondary Language Classrooms (IGI Global, 2024) and her book Higher Education Internationalization and English Language Instruction: Intersectionality of Race and Language in Canadian Universities (Springer, 2020) was nominated by the International Writing Centers Association (IWCA) for the 2021 IWCA Outstanding Book Award. Dr. Huo was also the recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award with the biggest number of students’ ballots in 2007 and the Dean’s Merit Award at the University of Toronto Scarborough in 2024.
Clayton Smith (Ed.)
Clayton Smith
is a professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Windsor. He received a EdD in higher education from Florida State University. He has engaged in higher education administration and teaching at four post-secondary education institutions in Canada and the United States, and completed two terms as Vice-Provost at the University of Windsor, where he oversaw a far-reaching portfolio that included academic governance, campus internationalization, enrollment management, and student affairs. His research areas include international student engagement, promising practices for teaching international students, student mentoring, and strategic enrollment management. He has published two books with IGI Global: Interrogating Race and Racism in Postsecondary Language Classrooms (2024) and Handbook of Research on Teaching Strategies for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse International Students (2022).