2022/01/18 by Lillie Padilla, Rosti Vana · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Multilingual Education and Policy #Literacy, Media, and Education #Second Language Learning and Teaching #Ideology #Representation (politics) #Critical discourse analysis #Sociology #Linguistics #Discourse analysis #Erasure #Politics #Political science #Computer science #Philosophy
paper · doi:10.1080/15348458.2021.2014845
openalex publication_date 2022/01/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/24
The present study conducted a critical discourse analysis and a visual analysis on 12 beginner-level Spanish textbooks. The goal of the study was to examine the representation of Afro-Latinxs and the ideologies behind these representations. The frameworks that guided the study were Fairclough’s framework for Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Kress and Van Leeuwen’s model for conducting a visual analysis. The results indicate that there is hardly any representation of Afro-Latinx in these textbooks. This finding is described as erasure. Interestingly, in the few instances in which Afro-Latinx are represented, we find instances of colorism, racial stereotypes, collectivization, and tourism discourse. In the light of these results, the study reechoes the importance of examining underlying ideologies in educational textbook materials.