Racialized Trajectories to Catalan Higher Education: Language, Anti-Racism and the ‘Politics of Listening’

• Autores: Kamran Khan, Lídia Gallego Balsà
• Localización: Applied linguistics, ISSN 0142-6001, Vol. 42, Nº 6, 2021, págs. 1083-1096
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper examines two forms of listening in relation to racism and the minoritylanguage context in Catalonia. The research is based on a collaboration between twoacademics and RC (Racialised Catalans) which started with initial interviews on theireducational experiences and trajectories in Catalonia. From there, a collaboration betweenthe academics and a inter-cultural, anti-racism group (Junts a pseudonym) emerged .First, we analyse the role of the white listening subject in which RC are discriminatedagainst for a perceived lack of Catalan. Second, we describe how the group made otherslisten through their work. Thus, listening results in a form of 'undecideability' which requireswider society for the possibilities of racial equality.