Marcia Moraes has made a contribution that will be of interest to many bilingualeducators in the United States. Her book is an attempt to examine and critique contemporarybilingual education as it is generally conceptualized in the United States within the frameworkof a critical Marxian, poststructuralist perspective grounded in the work of Mikhail Bakhtinand Valentin Voloshinov. Thus, Bilingual education: A dialogue with the Bakhtincircle seeks to bring together two fields that have been, until this time, relativelyunconnected.There is a great deal to be said for such undertakings, and both those interested in criticalpedagogy and those involved in bilingual education have much to learn from oneanother.