US English-only policies actively suppress linguistic identity

Evidence

Yet, present political movements indicate these linguistic possibilities need to be restrained, if not dismissed through policies advocating an end to bilingual education, like California’s Proposition 227 and efforts to nationally designate English as the “official” language. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2502

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ article’s theme of cultural panic, here linguistic rather than dress-based. — connects to: Language policy framed as zero-sum triggered counter-nationalism.; Monolingual Spanish residents were excluded by an untranslated environmental review — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up: Environmental…, 72