“…English language teaching (ELT) and teacher education (TE) have not escaped this hegemony, causing an unquestionable dominance of the inner-circle countries (Kachru, 1990) regarding initial teacher education. In Colombia, for example, scholars are interested in decolonizing materials (Núñez-Pardo, 2020, English language pedagogy (Ubaque-Casallas, 2021), higher education from the perspective of indigenous students (Usma et al, 2018), and doctoral TE (Castañeda-Peña & Méndez-Rivera, 2022); some even have concentrated on exploring the racialization of the ELT field (Bonilla Medina & Finardi, 2022). However, studies that question, challenge, or attempt to document racist practices in ELT and TE are scarce.…”