Jennifer B. Delfino

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jennifer B. Delfino is involved.

Title

Heritage Language, Racialization, and (Post)colonialism, Part I

Edited by Jennifer B. Delfino, Sonia Das and Chantal Tetreault

Special issue of Language, Culture and Society 8:1 (2026) ca. 120 pp.

Articles

Delfino, Jennifer B. 2026 Becoming Filipino: Raciolinguistic ideologies of authenticity in Filipino American narratives of language learning Heritage Language, Racialization, and (Post)colonialism, Part I, Delfino, Jennifer B., Sonia Das and Chantal Tetreault (eds.), pp. 63–85 | Article

This article examines how Filipino Americans variably constructed the meaning of “heritage” in an online Tagalog class offered by a Filipino cultural institute in the greater New York City area. Using ethnographic data collected from September-December 2021, the article combines theories and… read more

Delfino, Jennifer B., Chantal Tetreault and Sonia Das 2026 Heritage language, racialization, and (post-)colonialism Heritage Language, Racialization, and (Post)colonialism, Part I, Delfino, Jennifer B., Sonia Das and Chantal Tetreault (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article

This introduction to a double special issue features anti-hegemonic conceptualizations of imagined relationships between heritage and heritage language; race, racism, and racialization; colonialism and coloniality. It considers each set of terms as predominantly shaped by European colonialisms… read more