*Winner of the 2019 AAAL First Book Award*

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

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