2. Colonizing Hillside Elementary: The Figured World(s) of Parent Engagement at a Gentrifying (Two-Way) Bilingual School

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Foreword: Toward a Post-Gentrification Future in Bilingual Education Research, Policy and Practice xv
5. An Introduction to Overcoming the Gentrification of Dual Language, Bilingual and Immersion Education 1
6. 1. Setting the Foundation: Tracing the Evolving Critiques of the Gentrification of Dual Language Bilingual Education 13
7. Part 1: Research Chapters
8. Lens at the School Level
9. 2. Colonizing Hillside Elementary: The Figured World(s) of Parent Engagement at a Gentrifying (Two-Way) Bilingual School 39
10. 3. Contingent Commodification: Brazilian Students and the Gentrification of Portuguese–English Dual Language Bilingual Education 61
11. 4. The Impact of Neoliberal Multilingualism and Gentrification on Chinese DLBE Programs: Programs that Do and Don’t Enroll Heritage Learners 82
12. 5. ‘Downplay that Spanish Side’: The White Listening Subject in an Ethnically Homogeneous Bilingual Program Cohort 105
13. 6. Translanguaging and Racialized Multilingual Children: Envisioning Dual Language Education for Working-Class Students of Color 129
14. Lens Beyond the School Level
15. 7. Mass Production, Mass Marketing and Mass Displacement in DLBE Policy: A Call for Locally Crafted Programs 145
16. 8. ¿Estamos Escuchando?: Creating Transformative Ruptures that Amplify Latinx Families’ Rights to DLBE in Chicagoland 166
17. 9. Earmarking the Constellations of Financial Gentrification: The Elusivity of Funding Dual Language Bilingual Education for Emergent Bilinguals 189
18. 10. Críticos, no criticones: Applying the Actions of Critical Consciousness in an Interdisciplinary Collaboration Across Two Universities and a School District’s Dual Language/ESL Department 212
19. Part 2: Stakeholder Resource Chapters
20. 11. A Case of DLBE Gentrification and Tools for Engaging Stakeholders in How to Do Better 237
21. 12. Nice White Parents and Dual Language Education 259
22. 13. Countering Gentrification through Critical Consciousness: Recommendations and Success Stories for DLBE Educators 262
23. 14. Creating DLBE Programs that Center Equity in the Face of School Choice Policies 271
24. Conclusion: Overcoming DLBE Gentrification by Aiming for the Commons 285
25. Index 299