The discourse on the opening of a bilingual university along the Texas-Mexico border leads us to propose a theory of ‘converse racialization’ through which the local Spanish is being progressively ‘unmarked’ and disassociated from the language practice of Mexican Americans. Converse racialization, as the equal and opposite co-constituting underside of racialization, shifts the directionality of semiotic indexes away from a particular ‘race’ or ‘ethnicity’ (including whiteness) and produces an apparent state of ‘unmarkedness’. We argue that the process of ‘unmarking’ Spanish has social, economic, and racializing consequences. Specifically, the language-as-resource discourse obscures and rearticulates the ‘deficiency perspective’ that continues to perpetuate structural inequalities that Latinxs in the border face. (Racialization, higher education, critical race theory, bilingualism, neoliberalism)*

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“逆向种族化”和“联合国/标记”语言：在新自由主义世界中建立双语大学

关于在德克萨斯-墨西哥边境开设双语大学的论述使我们提出了一种“逆向种族化”理论，通过该理论，当地的西班牙人逐渐“无标记”并与墨西哥裔美国人的语言实践脱节。逆向种族化，作为种族化的平等和相反的共同构成底面，将符号索引的方向性从特定的“种族”或“民族”（包括白人）转移，并产生一种明显的“无标记”状态。我们认为，“取消标记”西班牙语的过程具有社会、经济和种族化后果。具体来说，语言作为资源的话语模糊并重新阐明了继续使边境拉丁裔面临的结构性不平等现象持续存在的“缺陷观点”。（种族化、高等教育、