Tag: social positioning

• Children’s Book Review: My Papi has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero

  A CHILDREN’S BOOK THAT HONORS CHICANX STUDENTS CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC HERITAGE It was an honor to write a blog post promoting Isabel Quintero’s book, My Papi Has a Motorcycle, for many reasons, but one of them is because I also grew up in Southern California. The illustrations, Zeke Peña, created resonated with me because they reflected […]

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  May 13, 2019

  Bilingual Product(s)

  agency, bicultural, bilingual, bilingual children, bilingual life, bilingualism, california dual language, Chincanx, culturally sustaining, gentrification, identity, immigrant, mexican, mexican-american, multicultural books, multilingual books, social positioning, spanglish, translanguaging

• Appropriating Whiteness by Accident.

  I didn’t do it on purpose. I mean I may have started to enunciate my words a certain way in middle school because “the way I spoke” was commented on a few times by white peers, but I swear I didn’t seek out to appropriate a white accent or mannerisms. I also didn’t purposely choose […]

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  May 5, 2017

  Bicultural Experiences, Bilingual Experiences, Language:Culture Expression & Identity, multicultural education, multilingual education

  accents, bicultural, bilingual, Bilingual Education, bilingual life, bilingualism, social positioning, sociocultural theory, spanish, translanguaging

• Please don’t call me “super liberal” Here’s why…

  I’m the first to admit that I didn’t start voting until I was 28. I don’t really have a solid reason. I wasn’t anti-politics or making our nation and communities a better place. I could blame it on my parents since they couldn’t vote because they weren’t citizens, but I’m past that. There was definitely […]

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  March 31, 2017

  Uncategorized

  agency, bicultural, bilingual, code-switching, identity, immigrant, marginalized communities, social positioning, spanglish

• Where is the controversy in Franglais, Singlish, or Spanglish?

  Where is it? Why does it exist? How can the problem be solved? Is there a problem? The answers to all of these questions really just depends on who you are speaking to and, in my opinion, where they stand. I will just be frank about my perspective. There are economic, political, and social implications […]

  Suzanne García-Mateus

  October 7, 2011

  Language:Culture Expression & Identity, Spanglish vs. Code-Switching

  identity, social positioning, sociolinguistics, spanglish