The coloniality of native speakerism

In various iterations of studies Global Englishes, much has been written about native-speakerism. However, Kumaravadivelu asks why the intellectual output not substantially altered power dynamics between ‘native’ and ‘non-native’ speakers. This article conducts a critical historiography native-speakerism shows how it is fundamentally implicated in mobilization race racial inequality operationalization colonial power. It does so by going back to texts during period American colonization Philippines discussing their discursive structural continuities today. The highlights problematizes coloniality