Uju Anya is Assistant Professor of Second Language Learning in the College of Education at Pennsylvania State University

Racialized Identities in Second Language Learning: Speaking Blackness in Brazil provides a critical overview and original sociolinguistic analysis of the African American experience in second language learning. Uju Anya's study follows African American college students learning Portuguese in Afro-Brazilian communities, and their journeys in learning to do and speak blackness in Brazil. More broadly, this book introduces the idea of second language learning as "transformative socialization": how learners, instructors, and their communities shape new communicative selves as they collaboratively construct and negotiate race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and social class identities.

Introduction: Why a book on race in language learning?

Chapter 1: The African American experience in language study: A review of the research

Chapter 2: Translanguaging identities

Chapter 3: Telling black stories in language learning research

Chapter 4: Nina's story: Race and ethnicity in classrooms and outside

Chapter 5: Didier's story: Translanguaging black manhood in multicultural contexts

Chapter 6: Leti's story: The racialized, gendered, and social classed body

Chapter 7: Rose's story: Redefining participation and success

Chapter 8: Communities and investments in learning a new language