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Calls for teacher-education programs to address racism and linguistic justice grow louder each year. Many programs have begun to build on long-standing, if also more general courses on anti-oppression education or diversity in schools by creating new, but usually distinct courses addressing racism and multilingualism, offering anti-racism training for program faculty, and creating dedicated pathways to recruit racialized teacher candidates. This work is welcome and urgently needed. And it raises theoretical, programmatic, and pedagogical questions about how race/racism and language relate to one another, and what that relationship means for teacher education. This symposium convenes teacher-education scholars with expertise in critical anti-racism and linguistic justice from Germany and Canada to explore this question in conversation with each other and with audience members.