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Multiracial Mandarin: Asian Americans and Impossible Language
By (author) David Shuang Song
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Understanding the entanglement of language education with ethnicity and racialization Who has the ""right"" to learn Mandarin Chinese? In Multiracial Mandarin, author David Shuang Song examines how matters of race and privilege shape US Mandarin language education and who has access to it. Through a two-year ethnographic study of two Bay Area high schools where diasporic and heritage speakers learn Mandarin alongside Black and Latinx students, Song advances a sociological and educational–linguistic inquiry into how language interacts with our understanding of identity and equity. Comparing classroom activities in two public schools, Song investigates teachers that seek to make Mandarin accessible while detaching it from its cultural roots. As he explores the difficulties of limited resources, racial inequality, and pedagogical practices inherent in multiracial Mandarin instruction, Song shows how language education complicates how educators understand Asian American students and troubles conventional conversations around race and racial equity in schools. Arguing that language practice and instruction must always be considered in relation to diaspora, ethnicity, and racialization, Multiracial Mandarin offers a frank analysis of the risks and benefits of teaching a diasporic language and asks if this practice ought to be replicated in more schools. As he applies innovative conceptual frameworks for talking about language among Asian Americans, Song's timely and theoretically sophisticated analysis has wide-ranging implications for how students, teachers, and administrators approach essential questions around education, privilege, and language survival. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.
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Publisher | University of Minnesota Press
Published date | 18 Aug 2026
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 288
Dimensions | 216 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 454g
ISBN | 978-1-5179-1878-1
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BISAC | education / philosophy & social aspects
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