Foreword by: Shondel Nero
Publication Date: November 24, 2023
Pages: 160
Series: Language and Literacy Series
Learn how to center, affirm, and develop Black immigrant literacies in ways that allow all youth to engage with and honor their literacies. This book presents a framework to revolutionize teaching in ways that draw on students’ assets for redesigning, rethinking, and reimagining literacy and the English Language Arts curriculum. This novel framework has five mechanisms through which Black immigrant literacies and languaging can be better understood: the struggle for justice, the myth of the model minority, transraciolinguistics, the local-global, and holistic literacies. Presenting authentic narratives of Afro-Caribbean youth, the author describes how teachers and educators can: (1) teach the Black literate immigrant; (2) use literacy and English language arts curriculum as a vehicle for instructing Black immigrant youth; (3) foster relations among Black immigrants and their peers through literacy; and (4) connect parents, schools, and communities. The text includes lesson plans, instructional modules, and templates that range in their focus from K–12 to college.
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Patriann Smith is an associate professor in literacy studies at the University of South Florida and coauthor of Affirming Black Students’ Lives and Literacies: Bearing Witness.
“Smith proffers a nuanced and rigorously researched Black Immigrant Literacies framework to provide an avenue to centralize race in the teaching of Black immigrant youth, and to give them an opportunity to thrive….She speaks to every audience that has a role in the education of Black youth—teachers, parents, peers, community members, administrators, policymakers….This book invites you into the conversation with honesty, grace, and love.”
—From the Foreword by Shondel Nero, professor of language education, New York University
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