An interview with Jonathan Rosa, expert in language, race, and education

An interview with Jonathan Rosa, expert in language, race, and education

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Jonathan Rosa is Associate Professor in the Gradu-ate School of Education, Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, and, by courtesy, Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics at Stanford University.His research combines sociocul-tural and linguistic anthropology to study the co-naturalization of language and race as a key feature of modern governance.Specifically, he analyzes the interplay between racial marginalization, linguistic stigmatization Mug and educational inequity.Dr.Rosa is author of the book, Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning Table Top Game Accessories of Latinidad (2019, Oxford University Press) and co-editor of the volume Language and Social Justice in Practice (2019, Routledge).

In addi-tion to his formal scholarly research, Dr.Rosa is an ongoing participant in public intellectual projects focused on race, education, language, youth, (im)migration, and U.S.Latinxs.His work has ap-peared in scholarly journals such as Language in Society, American Ethnologist, American Anthro-pologist, and the Journal of Linguistic Anthropolo-gy, as well as media outlets such as MSNBC, NPR, CNN, and Univision.