Call for Papers - Anti-racist Language Education in Higher Education

The dossier “Anti-racist Linguistic Education in Higher Education, Social Justice, and Hispanisms: Open Dialogues and Paths Taken in Teaching, Teacher Training, and Research” brings together studies that discuss plural ways of designing anti-racist linguistic education in Brazilian Higher Education, in the formative, praxeological, and investigative spheres, with special attention to the production of knowledge, including proposals for actions of an interventionist and transformative nature. In the field of Applied Linguistics, in dialogue with different approaches and areas of knowledge of Brazilian Hispanism, the edition seeks to analyze how Higher Education constitutes itself as a privileged locus for confronting the forms of subjectivation that manifest themselves in practices of violence anchored in the updated facets of coloniality and for challenging the social asymmetries that materialize according to ethno-racial criteria.

In light of these issues, this dossier aims to contribute to broadening the debate on education as a transformative action grounded in social justice, by highlighting experiences shaped by political, curricular, theoretical, and practical dynamics, translated into resistance to social inequalities and the construction of anti-racist education in Higher Education, observing the challenges, implications, and potential for its realization. In this sense, proposals that address how we, as researchers and professors in Higher Education, have responded to the demand for anti-racist language education through different theoretical and methodological approaches will be welcomed. Works that discuss whiteness, white identity, and whitening in the Latin American context are of interest, through reflection on the role of Spanish as a protagonist of anti-racist attitudes and practices in Higher Education. We are also interested in works that present methodological and curricular approaches that contribute to anti-racist education, with Spanish as the central axis, in the fields of linguistic, literary, cultural, and educational research. We are equally interested in the articulation between anti-racist education in Higher Education and Basic Education, especially regarding the production of teaching materials and innovative proposals, as well as works that revise the conception of language and linguistic models, focusing on the relationships between language, literature, and racism/anti-racism, with regard to Spanish. Within the context of Hispanism and Higher Education, the aim is to make visible proposals from teachers and researchers that allow us to understand what is being produced and experimented with to counter racism by critically reviewing the role of language, literature, culture, and education.

Submission deadline: August 30, 2026

Expected publication date: December 31, 2026

Dossier organizers:
Lívia Márcia Tiba Rádis Baptista (Federal University of Bahia/CNPq)
Itamaray Nascimento Cleomendes dos Santos (State University of Paraíba)
Sara Guiliana Gonzalez Belaonia (Federal University of Goiás)