Multilingual·ish: Identity, Agency, & Community in Language for Black Learners Our Allies

Multilingual-ish offers a dynamic and holistic perspective on language learning for all while honoring the identity, intellect, and lived experiences of Black learners-past, present, and future. Braiding research, reflection, storytelling, and educational insights, Multilingual-ish invites readers to rethink multilingualism not as assimilation or elite achievement, but as a pathway toward personal growth and collective consciousness.Part manifesto, part framework, and part love letter, this powerfully innovative work is rooted in both history and hope. Through her original Sankofa Language Learning Circle framework, Dr. Jasmine Brann presents a learning approach that integrates the nuanced intersections of language, culture, belonging, identity, and possibility for Black learners and allies.Multilingual-ish offers an optimistic and courageous vision forward for students, educators, families, researchers, advocates, and all lifelong learners. Dr. Brann encourages us to enrich learning communities and systems worthy of the brilliance Black learners already possess-and to reimagine language learning as a pathway to liberation and deeper humanity for everyone.