1. Intersectionality: Overlapping identities in ELL Advocacy 2012 IAMME Conference for Teachers of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

4. Intersectionality • Originally constructed as a way to delineate overlapping identities in such a way that race and socioeconomics would be viewed as a context for gender understanding in the early feminist movement • Expanded over time to mean a framework for examining multiple facets of identity simultaneously on the premise that any nuanced understanding renders their separation impossible • Allows the consideration of “situational power relations” and language as a focal point for ELL advocacy

5. Language as the most salient dimension of “Intersection” for ELLs • Overemphasis of ethnic/racial identities with no examination of the “intersection” of language • “Shadowing” our identity: language • Any “anti-racism” movement that does not incorporate language identity is not equitable • Language Identity: “deficit” in a US context • The social reward for language loss as the fabric of US culture

6. Traditional Model of Oppression

7. Limitation of the traditional model • Behaviorist • One-dimensional • Does not allow for intersectionality of identities • Does not recognize multilayered power differential and contextual/situational specificity

8. Rethinking the model of Oppression through the lens of language

9. multiple Roles of ELL advocatedepending on situations • Self-excused by-stander • Unconscious enabler • Silent sympathizer • Vocal advocate