Some scholars present super-diversity as an umbrella term to unify the project of generating a novel globalization sociolinguistics. This paper states three restrictions of the super-diversity literature: its ahistorical viewpoint; its defective consideration of neoliberalism; and its negligent reification of normative beliefs on language. An approach that takes all the above into account is the sociopolitical emergence concept, as exemplified by a case study of a hypersegregated Spanish/English dual-language charter school in Philadelphia (Phili). After positioning the school within the history of Latinos in the U.S. and Phili and within the current neoliberal political economy, the paper examines rising linguistic practices and categories that have been created within this historical and modern context in modes that oppose the reification of normative suppositions on language.