Note, A Birthright Rearticulated: The Politics of Bilingual Education

Publication Title

New York University Law Review

Authors

Nirej S. Sekhon, Georgia State University College of LawFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-1999

Abstract

This Note addresses Proposition 227, California's recently enacted voter initiative banning bilingual education in public schools. Nirej Sekhon argues that the proposition functions rhetorically as a racially inflected exhortation to nonwhite peoples in the United States. The proposition equates American identity with white identity by claiming English as the birthright privilege of white Americans. As such, the proposition is continuous with the history of language and education politics in the United States. The author concludes by sketching the broad challenge that his analysis poses to current legal mechanisms.

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Recommended Citation

Nirej Sekhon, Note, A Birthright Rearticulated: The Politics of Bilingual Education, 74 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 1407 (1999).

Institutional Repository Citation

Nirej S. Sekhon, Note, A Birthright Rearticulated: The Politics of Bilingual Education, Faculty Publications By Year 1017 (1999)
https://readingroom.law.gsu.edu/faculty_pub/1017

Volume

74

Issue

5

First Page

1407

Last Page

1450