ABSTRACT
Raciolinguistic ideologies (RLIs) refer to the co-naturalization of language and race in ways that dominate how racialized speakers are heard and interpreted through the white listening subject, understood as the dominant ways of hearing and categorizing speech as ‘adequate’ or ‘deficient’ depending on the classed and raced social position of the speaker (Flores & Rosa, 2015). This chapter introduces the conceptual and disciplinary origins of raciolinguistic ideologies and perspectives (Flores & Rosa, 2015; Rosa & Flores, 2017) and identifies four key elements of this framework: 1) the analysis of racial hierarchies versus racialized speaking subjects, 2) the examination of processes of coloniality that place language and race in historical perspective, 3) the theorizing of the white listening subject, and 4) the theory of social change. Two cases of raciolinguistic ideological research in multilingual educational contexts in Perú and the United States are illustrated, and points of convergence and divergence between raciolinguistic ideologies, raciolinguistics (Alim, Rickford & Ball, 2016) and decolonial and Southern scholarship on multilingualism are discussed. The chapter concludes by considering current and future developments in scholarship informed by a raciolinguistic ideological lens.
