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Qianqian Zhang-Wu Bridget Goodman

Autoethnographic Explorations of Lived Raciolinguistic Experiences Among Multilingual Scholars

Looking Inward to Move Forward

Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Bridget Goodman

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Multilingual Matters
15 April 2025

Research methods: general; Social discrimination; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; Higher & further education, tertiary education

Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies

While substantial research has looked backward at the colonial history of language and forward to the potential of decolonizing English for linguistic justice, there is a lack of investigation looking inward at the lived raciolinguistic experiences of multilingual scholars. This edited collection opens a healing space for storytelling and deepens readers' understanding of raciolinguistics in practice through autoethnography. The book brings together language education researchers and scholars, with each author representing and in contact with multiple cultural, linguistic and ethnic backgrounds. Together they create a community of practice to bring scholars with diverse backgrounds together for inward reflections on their lived raciolinguistic experiences. Through this journey, the book empowers both the chapter contributors and readers and allies who may see themselves in the stories to reflect, learn and change their practices, and provides valuable insights into raciolinguistics and autoethnography as a research method.

Edited by: Qianqian Zhang-Wu, Bridget Goodman
Imprint: Multilingual Matters
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 330g
ISBN: 9781800417298
ISBN 10: 1800417292
Series: Critical Language and Literacy Studies
Pages: 270
Publication Date: 15 April 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part 1: Introduction Chapter 1. Qianqian Zhang-Wu and Bridget Goodman: Looking Inward Through Autoethnographies Part 2: Navigating Transitions Chapter 2. Xiaoye You: Living and Writing a Transnational Racial Subject Chapter 3. Qianqian Zhang-Wu: “I don’t know English Department now offers CHINESE writing classes!”: Raciolinguistic Struggles of a Chinese Woman Working as an English Professor in the US Chapter 4. Bolormaa Shinjee: “Did You Bring My Lunch Beautiful”? Self-Reflection of a Female Academic from the Global South Part 3: Reclaiming Identity Chapter 5. Renata Love Jones: Yonder’s Endarkened Pedagogies Chapter 6. Jung Kim: “Jung like Jungle”: (Re)Claiming Names and Languages Chapter 7. Ellen Cushman: Unsettling Raciolinguistics: Reclaiming Indigenous Language Practices Chapter 8. Nariman Amantayev: Autoethnographic Inquiry into Raciolinguistic Ideology within the Same Ethnicity and Invitation to Reconsider Kazakh Language Teaching Practices Part 4: Self-Positioning as Researchers Chapter 9. Sibonile Mpendukana and Miché Thompson: Embodied Moments of Racialization in Research Chapter 10. Ming-Hsuan Wu & Genevieve Leung: Legitimately Occupying Peripheral “Asian” and “American” Spaces: A Dialogue Between Two Language Teaching Professionals Chapter 11. Anna Becker: 'You Sound Like from the CD' – An Autoethnographic Narrative about ‘Multilingual’ Teaching and Research in ‘Multilingual’ Switzerland Chapter 12. Bridget Goodman: Shades of Beige? One White Scholar’s Imperfect(ive) Quest for Racial and Linguistic Justice Part 5: Reflection Through Writing Chapter 13. Shreya Sangai: English Departments Here and There: Rebuke and Mistrust, Compassion and Rebuilding Chapter 14. Sandro Barros: Brazilian Landscape with Rain: On the Languaged Brown Body Below the Equator Chapter 15. Jeannette D. Alarcón: Walking a Raciolinguistic Path Con Mi Abuela Part 6: Conclusion Chapter 16. Bridget Goodman and Qianqian Zhang-Wu: From Looking Inward to Looking Forward

Qianqian Zhang-Wu is Assistant Professor of English & Director of Multilingual Writing, Northeastern University, USA. She is the author of Languaging Myths and Realities: Journeys of Chinese International Students (Multilingual Matters, 2022) which won the 2022 CIES Study Abroad and International Students SIG Best Book Award, 2023 CCCC Research Impact Award and 2023 CCCC Advancement of Knowledge Award Honorable Mention. Bridget Goodman is Associate Professor of Multilingual Education, Graduate School of Education, Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan. She is co-editor of Researching Multilingually: Conceptual and Methodological Failures, Struggles and Successes (Multilingual Matters, 2025, with Brian Seilstad).

Reviews for Autoethnographic Explorations of Lived Raciolinguistic Experiences Among Multilingual Scholars: Looking Inward to Move Forward

This volume offers a powerful yet deeply personal look into the lived raciolinguistic experiences of multilingual scholars. Not only does it subvert dominant narratives, but it also empowers readers to embrace their linguistic identities. Essential reading for anyone committed to dismantling linguistic oppression and fostering equity in academia. * Sender Dovchin, Curtin University, Australia * I appreciate the opportunity this book provided to actively listen to the lived and often traumatic raciolinguistic experiences of multilingual international scholars who courageously share their powerful stories through autoethnographic methodologies. Their stories and scholarship remind us that we have much work to do in our teaching, research, publishing, and everyday interactions to disrupt raciolinguistic ideologies. * Wayne E. Wright, Purdue University, USA * This book illustrates how the raciolinguistic memories of multilingual scholars can be powerfully mobilized through autoethnography. By looking inward, the contributors also shed light on how individuals can overcome vulnerability and discomfort to strike a path forward for themselves and their allies. Essential reading for teachers, teacher educators, and researchers. * Peter I. De Costa, Michigan State University, USA *