Book Review: Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy by April Baker-Bell
April Baker-Bell’s Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy (2020) urges literacy teachers and researchers to recognize and understand how Anti-Black Linguistic Racism oppresses Black Language-speakers in the classroom. Anti-Blackness is a deeply-rooted problem in education that is exacerbated by educators upholding white linguistic hegemony. Despite the effort by scholars and educators to dismantle…