Abstract
ABSTRACT Drawing on Asian Critical Race Theory, this qualitative case study analyzed first-generation Chinese immigrant parents’ language ideologies on their children’s heritage language (HL) maintenance in the United States. The findings revealed parents’ persistence in preserving their HLs for their children, as they considered HLs to be an integral component of their identities and a resource for their families. The study also found that parents’ immigration history, racialized experiences, and their children’s schooling experience, together with the larger sociopolitical contexts that perpetuated English hegemony and nativistic racism toward Asian Americans, contributed to their variously conflicted language ideologies toward HL maintenance.
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