The Making of the Language of US Latinxs: Translanguaging Tejidos

Why does this book focus on US Latinx bilingual students? And what has been the role of language in drawing fronteras that have kept Latinx students from privilege and that have racialized them and enregistered them as defi cient? How was the language of US Latinxs made and discursively constructed? These are the fi rst questions that we attempt to answer in this chapter. We do so by reviewing the history of Latinx communities in the United States and their education, as we focus on the relations between the making of language, race, and power. We argue that raciolinguistic ideologies