This article examines the ways Latino/a bilingual teacher candidates (TCs) talk about their own and others' language practices and the ways this talk reflects and reproduces racialized notions of bilingualism. Drawing on data from a one-year critical ethnography at a Hispanic-serving institution in Southwest Texas, this article demonstrates that…

Following Boaventura de Sousa Santos, the authors of this article reject the type of "abyssal thinking" that erases the existence of counter-hegemonic knowledges and lifeways, adopting instead the "from the inside out" perspective that is required for thinking constructively about the language and education of racialized…