El. knyga: (M)othering Labeled Children: Bilingualism and Disability in the Lives of Latinx Mothers

This book offers a window into the lives and experiences of ten amazing immigrant women who have gone to great lengths to support their emerging bilingual children diagnosed with dis/abilities. These are voices our education system often ignores or overlooks, yet their testimonios are so powerful! They offer insights that we can leverage for a more just system for all emerging bilingual students, especially for those who have been diagnosed with a dis/ability. * Deborah K. Palmer, University of Colorado Boulder, USA * Marķa Cioč-Peńa provides a powerful analysis of Latina mothers advocating for their children at the intersection of language, race and disability that challenges deficit perspectives by pointing to the rich cultural and linguistic traditions that they build on as they navigate oppressive systems designed to marginalize them and their children. * Nelson Flores, University of Pennsylvania, USA * Cioč-Peńas work is situated in both refusal and expansion. She refuses a deficit perspective of mothers rooted in standards and norms of whiteness. The expansion is in her focus on those who have been largely neglected by education research mothers of emergent bilingual children who were also labeled disabled. Her positioning of these mothers as knowledge generators is an essential contribution to conversations about education, language, disability, and race. * Subini Annamma, Stanford University, USA * The book will undoubtedly be an asset to researchers, policy makers, and teachers interested in bilingual education, disability studies, and special education. Even so, it remains reader friendly since it is not excessively scientific and theoretical concepts are well explained [ ...] Cioč-Peńa makes the reader feel as though we are with her as she interacts with and interviews the mothers, and their children. This is facilitated using some pictures, plenty of transcripts, and by personal accounts of her relationships with the mothers. -- Eric Alvarez, Sorbonne Nouvelle University, France * LINGUIST List 33.2040 *