Abstract
In the past few years, the United States has experienced a significant increase in xenophobia, white supremacy, and anti-immigrant sentiments. The in xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiments is the direct consequence of the educational crisis, which is intrinsically related to a crisis in a democracy that has long affected western societies in general, in the United States o[f] America in particular. This research argues that the long-standing crises of democracy and illiteracy that have contributed to xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiments represent new language teaching and learning challenges. The project argues that the challenge of xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment demands new forms of literacy education that can foster democratic new means of agency.