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Are you a collector of books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, recordings, coins, or other materials collected by libraries? Submit an essay about your collection for a chance to win the 2019-2020 Elmer Adler Undergraduate Book Collecting Prize, which is awarded annually to an undergraduate student who shows the most thought and ingenuity in assembling a thematically […]

Raciolinguistic ideologies co-construct language and race in ways that frame the language practices of racialized communities as inherently deficient. Latinx students, in particular, are often categorized as semilinguals who have failed to fully master either English or Spanish. Guest speaker Nelson Flores (Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania) traces the specter of semilingualism from […]

Scholars and social commentators alike often imagine inclusion as a pathway to equality. The logic is rather straightforward: if two groups are distinct from one another, and resources are unequally distributed between them, then the group with more resources can concentrate its advantage. Yet when these groups begin to mingle, the boundaries between them become […]