This collection focuses on social awareness and critical language awareness with the goal of enlightening and empowering multilingual and multicultural communities across the U.S. This volume will be of interest to students, scholars, and educators in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and language education.

Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) is a Professor of Sociolinguistics specializing in Latinx communities at California State University San Marcos.

Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza is Professor of Spanish and Linguistics in the Department of Languages and Linguistics at New Mexico State University, USA.

Mercedes Niño-Murcia is Professor Emerita of Hispanic Linguistics in the Departments of Linguistics and Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Iowa, USA.