This conceptual essay explores Black Englishes as a function of Critical Race Theory, critical literacy, and critical applied linguistics, demonstrating its transdisciplinary emergence as a construct. Raciolinguistics in conjunction with Black immigrant literacies offers a lens for recognizing Black Englishes as a globally legitimate multilingual heuristic for meaning-making in K-20 urban intensive, urban emergent, and urban characteristic contexts, not only when leveraged by Black communities but also when used by individuals at large. Implications are outlined for universally expanding understandings of Black Englishes as a multilingual, transnational, and instructional transdisciplinary imperative across urban contexts, both in the United States and beyond.
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