Black Englishes and the Global Multilingual Imperative: Toward a Transnational Ethos in Urban Education

This conceptual essay explores Black Englishes as a function of Critical Race Theory, critical literacy, and critical applied linguistics, demonstrating its transdisciplinary emergence as a construct. Raciolinguistics in conjunction with Black immigrant literacies offers a lens for recognizing Black Englishes as a globally legitimate multilingual heuristic for meaning-making in K-20 urban intensive , urban emergent , and urban characteristic contexts, not only when leveraged by Black communities but also when used by individuals at large. Implications are outlined for universally expanding understandings of Black Englishes as a multilingual, transnational, and instructional transdisciplinary imperative across urban contexts, both in the United States and beyond.