Race, Racism, and Anti-Blackness in World Languages

Some thoughts from the TESOL 2021 Convention invited panel on challenging racism and anti-Blackness in language learning, teaching, and research. Main ideas on, first, why race matters for everybody, and also, special considerations on the specific case of African Americans. Keywords: Applied linguistics, second language acquisition (SLA), world languages, language education, race, racism, anti-Blackness