Bringing Race to the Classroom: How a Multilingual Speaker Performs Infra Politics to Confront Raciolinguistic Ideologies

The notion of (anti) racism in applied linguistics general and language education particular has gained considerable attention by scholars the fields. Contesting dominance monolingualism education, linguists have become eager to resuscitate this notion, often implicitly averring that long been insidiously penetrating field surreptitiously operating under so-called raciolinguistic ideologies. It is these ideologies are alleged perpetuate, even further hegemony White supremacy empire, eventually giving rise racial inequalities hierarchies education. antiracism movement, it asserted, needs be enacted. This article will argue fervent pronouncements need taken seriously, so as promote linguistic justice equality first discuss claims ideologies, then provide examples (from a classroom practice) how “racialized subjects” enact their quiescent capacity social political being subverting identities perceived dominant (i.e. English) way doing infra politics –an instance grassroots politics. In doing, argues racialized subjects not submissive users, but actively engaged themselves resisting