Becoming the System: A Raciolinguistic Genealogy of Bilingual Education in the Post-Civil Rights Era - Paperbackby Nelson Flores (Author) Bilingual education is usually framed as a tool of antiracism. In Becoming the System, author Nelson Flores challenges that framework by examining the ways that institutionalizing bilingual education in the post Civil Rights Era in the United States has served to maintain rather than challenge racial hierarchies. He adopts a methodology that he terms raciolinguistic genealogy as a point of entry for arguing that the