“We’re Not Used to Racism at All”: Race, Language, and Becoming “Global” at the Bilingual Academy of Senegal

Abstract

This ethnography examines the links between race and language at a private French‐English school in Dakar, Senegal. Drawing on theories of de/coloniality, anthropology of white supremacy, and raciolinguistics, this article examines the ways in which racial and linguistic ideologies circulated within the school, in particular around discussions of global citizenship. This study contributes a decolonial, raciolinguistic analysis to anthropological discussions of education, language, and race.