Developing an Intersectional Framework: Engaging the Decenter in Language Studies

dc.contributor.author Romero, Yasmine
dc.date.accessioned 2017-05-22T21:25:14Z
dc.date.available 2017-05-22T21:25:14Z
dc.date.issued 2017-02-22
dc.description.abstract The author explores how current scholarship has investigated diversified identities and identification practices using a variable-by-variable approach. This kind of approach focuses on developing in-depth understandings of particular variables of identity, such as race and gender. However, this kind of approach has also limited language studies engagement with diversified identities and identification practices. The author argues for a variable-with-variable or intersectional approach to develop more complex, nuanced ways of understanding these identities and identification practices within the nexus of language studies. The approach attempts to retheorize K. W. Crenshaw’s (1993) intersectionality for the language classroom by proposing the concept of the decenter, or the potentially productive spaces in which forgotten and unintelligible experiences can be perceived. The author discusses how this concept encourages us to investigate identity and identification practices in innovative ways through a careful, multilayered analysis of classroom and focus group interactions from her 200-level composition course for multilingual learners.
dc.format.extent 27 pages
dc.identifier.citation Romero, Y. (2017). Developing an Intersectional Framework: Engaging the Decenter in Language Studies. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 0(0), 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/15427587.2017.1285205
dc.identifier.doi 10.1080/15427587.2017.1285205
dc.identifier.uri https://doi.org/10.1080/15427587.2017.1285205
dc.language.iso en-US
dc.publisher Taylor & Francis
dc.title Developing an Intersectional Framework: Engaging the Decenter in Language Studies
dc.type Article
dc.type.dcmi Text
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