Books, Volumes, and Edited Collections
Smalls, Krystal A., Spears, Arthur K., and Rosa, Jonathan, eds. 2021. Language and White Supremacy. Special Issue of Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 31(2):149-311.
Rosa, Jonathan. 2019. Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and the Learning of Latinidad. New York: Oxford University Press.
Avineri, Netta, Graham, Laura, Johnson, Eric, Riner, Robin Conley, and Rosa, Jonathan, eds. 2019. Language and Social Justice in Practice. New York: Routledge.
Journal Articles
Rosa, Jonathan. 2026. Race and the Language of Othering. In International Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 3rd Edition, edited by Hilary Nesi and Petar Milin. Elsevier.
Flores, Nelson, and Rosa, Jonathan. 2023. Undoing Raciolinguistics. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 27(5):421-427. (Spanish version, Deshaciendo la raciolingüística, Journal of Sociolinguistics. 27(5):428-435; translated by Alfredo Gonzalo Sifuentes Apoyala, with Virginia Zavala).
Rosa, Jonathan, and Flores, Nelson. 2023. (Re)Mediating Language “Barriers” and Rethinking Social Justice from a Raciolinguistic Perspective. Daedalus. 152(3):99-114.
Flores, Nelson, and Rosa, Jonathan. 2023. Undoing Competence: Coloniality, Homogeneity, and the Overrepresentation of Whiteness in Applied Linguistics. Language Learning. 73(S2):268-295.
Smalls, Krystal A., Spears, Arthur K., and Rosa, Jonathan. 2021. Introduction to Language and White Supremacy. Special Issue of Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 31(2):152-156.
García, Ofelia, Flores, Nelson, Seltzer, Kate, Wei, Li, Otheguy, Ricardo, and Rosa, Jonathan. 2021. Rejecting Abyssal Thinking in the Language and Education of Racialized Bilinguals: A Manifesto. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies. 18(3):203-228. (Reprinted in Scott, Janelle, and Bajaj, Monisha. 2023. World Yearbook of Education 2023: Racialization and Educational Inequality in Global Perspective. New York: Routledge. Pp. 81-99.)
Rosa, Jonathan, and Sunny Trivedi. 2021. Language and Race/Ethnicity. International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, edited by James Stanlaw. Malden, MA: Wiley.
Rosa, Jonathan, and Díaz, Vanessa. 2020. Raciontologies: Rethinking Institutional Racism and Enactments of White Supremacy. American Anthropologist. 122(1):120-132.
Rosa, Jonathan. 2018. Nunca hemos dicho la verdad: Impugnaciones digitales de la realidad y la supuesta post-verdad en la era Trump. Anuario de Glotopolítica 2:85-96. (Translated by LAILAC’s Grupo de Glotopolítica at CUNY Graduate Center).
Rosa, Jonathan, and Flores, Nelson. 2017. Unsettling Race and Language: Toward a Raciolinguistic Perspective. Language in Society. 46(5):621-647. (Reprinted in Language in Society’s 50th Anniversary Collection.)
Rosa, Jonathan, and Bonilla, Yarimar. 2017. Deprovincializing Trump, Decolonizing Diversity, and Unsettling Anthropology. American Ethnologist. 44(2):201-208. (Featured in Open Anthropology 5(3), October 2017.)
Rosa, Jonathan. 2016. Standardization, Racialization, Languagelessness: Raciolinguistic Ideologies across Communicative Contexts. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 26(2):162-183. (Featured in Open Anthropology 5(3), October 2017.)
Rosa, Jonathan. 2016. Racializing Language, Regimenting Latinas/os: Chronotope, Social Tense, and American Raciolinguistic Futures. Language & Communication. 46:106-117.
Flores, Nelson, and Rosa, Jonathan. 2015. Undoing Appropriateness: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and Language Diversity in Education. Harvard Educational Review. 85(2):149-171. (Spanish version published in Niño-Murcia, Mercedes, Zavala, Virginia, and de los Heros, Susana, eds. 2020. Hacia una sociolingüistica crítica, dessarollos y debates. Lima, Peru: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2020; translated by Eduardo Muñoz-Muñoz.)
Bonilla, Yarimar, and Rosa, Jonathan. 2015. #Ferguson: Digital Protest, Hashtag Ethnography, and the Racial Politics of Social Media in the United States. American Ethnologist. 42(1):4-17. (Reprinted in Brondo, Keri Vacanti, ed. 2017. Cultural Anthropology: Contemporary, Public, and Critical Readings. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 444-452; Guest, Kenneth J., ed. 2017. Cultural Anthropology: A Reader for a Global Age. New York: W.W. Norton & Company; Dines, Gail, Humez, Jean M., Yousman, Bill, and Yousman, Lori Bindig, eds. 2018. Gender, Race, and Class in Media, 5th Edition. Los Angeles: Sage Publishing. Pp. 578-592; Bolles, A. Lynn, Gomberg-Muñoz, Ruth, Perley, Bernard, and Brondo, Keri Vacanti, eds. 2022. Anthropological Theory for the Twenty-First Century: A Critical Approach. Toronto: University of Toronto Press; featured in Open Anthropology 3(3), October 2015.)
Book Chapters
Rosa, Jonathan, Ahmad, Neida Basheer, and Melgarejo, Victoria. 2026. Rethinking Linguistic Deficits, Differences, and Dominance: Language Learning Beyond Disciplinary and Linguistic Borders. In Oxford Handbook of Language Socialization, edited by Elise Berman and Benjamin Smith. Oxford University Press.
Díaz, Vanessa, and Rosa, Jonathan. 2025. Raciontologies: Reconceptualizing Racialized Enactments and the Reproduction of White Supremacy. In Anthropology of White Supremacy: A Reader, edited by Jemima Pierre, Junaid Reid, and Aisha Beliso-De Jesús. Princeton University Press. Pp. 178-191.
Muñoz-Muñoz, Eduardo, Martínez, Ramón Antonio, and Rosa, Jonathan. 2024. Misma Dirección, Distinto Sentido: Reconceptualizing Problems and Possibilities in Educational Language Learning. In Equity in Multilingual Schools and Communities: Celebrating the Contributions of Guadalupe Valdés, edited by Amanda Kibler, Christian Faltis, Aída Walqui, and George C. Bunch. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. Pp. 100-111.
Rosa, Jonathan, and Flores, David. 2022. Diasporic Signs: Puerto Rican Placemaking, Latinx Artivism, and the Aesthetics of Resistance. In Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades, edited by Gina Pérez and Alex Chávez. Santa Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research. Pp. 69-91.
Aparicio, Ana, Bolivar, Andrea, Chávez, Alex E., Feliciano-Santos, Sherina, Guerra, Santiago Ivan, Pérez, Gina M., Rosa, Jonathan, Rosas, Gilberto, Villarreal, Aimee, and Zavella, Patricia. 2022. Introduction. In Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades, edited by Gina Pérez and Alex Chávez. Santa Fe, NM: School for Advanced Research. Pp. xi-xxxiii.
Avineri, Netta, Johnson, Eric J., Perley, Bernard C., Rosa, Jonathan, and Zentella, Ana Celia. 2021. Applied Linguistic Anthropology: Balancing Social Science with Social Change. Applied Linguistics for the Public Good: Cross-Disciplinary Methods for Social Change, edited by Doris Warriner. London: Bloomsbury. Pp. 171-194.
Rosa, Jonathan, and Flores, Nelson. 2020. Reimagining Race and Language: From Raciolinguistic Ideologies to a Raciolinguistic Perspective. Oxford Handbook of Language and Race, edited by H. Samy Alim, Angela Reyes, and Paul Kroskrity. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 90-107.
King, Sharese, and Rosa, Jonathan. 2019. Forging New Ways of Hearing Diversity: The Politics of Linguistic Heterogeneity in the Work of John Rickford. In The Routledge Companion to the Work of John Rickford, edited by Alicia Wassink and Renee Blake. New York: Routledge. Pp. 281-289.
Avineri, Netta, Graham, Laura, Johnson, Eric, Riner, Robin Conley, and Rosa, Jonathan. 2019. Introduction: Reimagining Language and Social Justice. In Language and Social Justice in Practice, edited by Netta Avineri, Laura Graham, Eric Johnson, Robin Conley Riner, and Jonathan Rosa. New York: Routledge. Pp. 1-16.
Rosa, Jonathan. 2019. Contesting Representations of Migrant “Illegality” through the Drop the I-Word Campaign: Rethinking Language Change and Social Change. In Language and Social Justice in Practice, edited by Netta Avineri, Laura Graham, Eric Johnson, Robin Conley Riner, and Jonathan Rosa. New York: Routledge. Pp. 35-43.
Rosa, Jonathan. 2018. Community as a Campus: From “Problems” to Possibilities in Latinx Communities. In Civic Engagement in Diverse Latinx Communities: Learning from Social Justice Partnerships in Action, edited by Mari Castañeda and Joseph Krupczynski. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. Pp. 111-123.
Rosa, Jonathan, and Flores, Nelson. 2017. Do You Hear What I Hear?: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies. In Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Educational Justice in a Changing World, edited by Django Paris and H. Samy Alim. New York, NY: Teachers College Press. Pp. 175-190.
Rosa, Jonathan, and Trivedi, Sunny. 2017. Diaspora and Language. In The Routledge Handbook of Migration and Language, edited by Suresh Canagarajah. New York, NY: Routledge. Pp. 330-346.
Rosa, Jonathan, and Burdick, Christa. 2016. Language Ideologies. In Oxford Handbook of Language and Society, edited by Ofelia García, Nelson Flores, and Massimiliano Spotti. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 103-123.
Rosa, Jonathan. 2016. From Mock Spanish to Inverted Spanglish: Language Ideologies and the Racialization of Mexican and Puerto Rican Youth in the United States. In Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas about Race, edited by H. Samy Alim, John Rickford, and Arnetha Ball. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 65-80.
Irizarry, Jason, and Rosa, Jonathan. 2015. Complicating Black and Brown Solidarity: Racial Positioning and Re-Positioning in “Post-Racial America.” In The Assault on Communities of Color: Exploring the Realities of Race-Based Violence, edited by K. J. Fasching-Varner, N. Hartlep, K. A. Albert, C. Hayes, R. Mitchell, G. R. Martin, C. E. Matias, and C. Allen. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. Pp. 13-17.
Rosa, Jonathan. 2015. Nuevo Chicago?: Language, Diaspora, and Latina/o Panethnic Formations. In A Sociolinguistics of Diaspora: Latino Practices, Identities, and Ideologies, edited by Rosina Marquez and Luisa Martín Rojo. New York, NY: Routledge. Pp. 31-47.
Rosa, Jonathan. 2014. Learning Ethnolinguistic Borders: Language and Diaspora in the Socialization of U.S. Latinas/os. In Diaspora Studies in Education: Toward a Framework for Understanding the Experiences of Transnational Communities, edited by Rosalie Rolón-Dow and Jason G. Irizarry. New York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing. Pp. 39-60.
Commentaries, Reviews, and Blog Posts
Avineri, Netta, Cavanaugh, Jillian R, and Rosa, Jonathan. 2026. Linguistic Diversity and Language Policies. Language Matters Series. Society for Linguistic Anthropology.
Vossoughi, Shirin, Rosa, Jonathan, Garcia, Antero, and Mirra, Nicole. 2025. Magnitudes of Creativity: Clarifying Our Commitments to Solidarity in Educational Research and Practice. Research in the Teaching of English. 60(2):236-247.
Rosa, Jonathan. 2025. Resounding Authoritarianisms. Present Tense: Anthropologists Thinking Out Loud. American Anthropological Association.
Flores, Nelson, and Rosa, Jonathan, Fischer-Wachspress, Ashira, and Jimenez, Nicolle. 2024. Language is Not the Problem, Racism is the Problem. Demystifying Languages Project. Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.
Rosa, Jonathan, and Flores, Nelson. 2023. Undoing Raciolinguistics, Unsettling (Socio)Linguistics. Journal of Sociolinguistics. 27(5):483-485.
Rosa, Jonathan, and Flores, Nelson. 2022. Premises, pitfalls, and possibilities of undoing competence. Language Learning. 73(S2):337-343.
Rosa, Jonathan, and Flores, Nelson. 2021. Decolonization, Language, and Race in Applied Linguistics and Social Justice. Applied Linguistics. 42(6):1162-1167.
Flores, Nelson, and Rosa, Jonathan. 2019. Bringing Race Into Second Language Acquisition. The Modern Language Journal. 103(S1):145-151.
Flores, Nelson, and Rosa, Jonathan. 2017. Political Correctness is Not the Problem, Systemic Racism Is. Anthropology News. 58(4):e334-e338.
Rosa, Jonathan, and Avineri, Netta. 2016. Interdisciplinary Collaborations around Language and Social Justice. Anthropology. Anthropology News. 57(7):e151-e152.
Rosa, Jonathan. 2016. Does the racialized subject have language? The Educational Linguist.
Rosa, Jonathan, and Flores, Nelson. 2015. Hearing Language Gaps and Reproducing Social Inequality. In “Invited Forum: Bridging the ‘Language Gap.’” Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 25(1):77-79.
Jocson, Korina, and Rosa, Jonathan. 2015. Rethinking Gaps: Literacies and Languages in Participatory Cultures. Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy. 58(5):372-374.
Rosa, Jonathan. 2014. Language as a Sign of Immigration? In “Vital Topics Forum: On Latin@s and the Immigration Debate.” American Anthropologist. 161(1):156-157. (Featured in Open Anthropology 2(3), October 2014.)
Rosa, Jonathan. 2014. Review of Living Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology, by Laura Ahearn. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. 24(3):364-365.
Rosa, Jonathan. 2012. Contesting Representations of Immigration. Anthropology News. 53(8):s13-14.
Rosa, Jonathan. 2011. Relative Value of Languages. Anthropology News. 52(4):3-4.