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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. Book Features: Details how teachers, curriculum, and instruction can benefit from understanding the experiences of Black immigrant students, and how that experience differs from other Black American students. Highlights authentic narratives that center the holistic voices of Afro-Caribbean immigrant youth from Jamaica and the Bahamas. Demonstrates how students grapple with racialization, becoming immigrants, and the responses of others to their use of Englishes in the United States. Offers research-based methods for teaching all students to draw on their metalinguistic, metacultural, and metaracial understandings in literacy and ELA classrooms. Presents concrete strategies for supporting Black immigrant populations in establishing and sustaining a sense of community across linguistic, cultural, and racial contexts.

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Author:   Patriann Smith ,  Shondel Nero ,  S. Joel Warrican
Publisher:   Teachers' College Press
Imprint:   Teachers' College Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.349kg
ISBN:  

9780807768976

ISBN 10:   0807768979
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   24 November 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order  
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Table of Contents

Contents (FINAL) Foreword Shondel Nero  vii Acknowledgments and Dedication  ix 1.  Introduction  1 The Framework for Black Immigrant Literacies  2 Authentic Narratives  4 A Call to Teachers, Educators, Schools, and Policymakers  6 Envisioning Imaginary Futures With Black Immigrant Literacies  8 Overview of the Chapters  9 2.  Reenvisioning the Literacies of Black Immigrant Youth  10 A Brief History and Demographics of Black Immigrants in the United States  10 Intersections Surrounding Black Immigrant Youth as a “New Model Minority”  11 Languaging and Englishes of Black Immigrants: A Selective Review  15 Peer Interactions in the Black Immigrant Experience  22 Reenvisioning the Literacies of Black Immigrant Youth  23 Summary  26 Questions to Consider  26 3.  The Framework for Black Immigrant Literacies  27 Elements of the Black Immigrant Literacies Framework  27 Intersectional Lenses Undergirding Black Immigrant Literacies  32 Applying the Black Immigrant Literacies Framework  39 Questions to Consider  39 4.  Teaching Chloe, a Black Jamaican Literate Immigrant: Entanglements of Englishes, Race, and Migration  40 Chloe’s Authentic Narrative: Entanglements of Englishes, Race, and Migration: “You’ll Never Hear Her Speak, Like Broken”  41 Insights From Chloe’s Authentic Narrative  47 Questions to Consider  65 5.  Teaching Ervin, a Black Bahamian Literate Immigrant: Fostering Peer Interactions  67 Ervin’s Authentic Narrative: Rac(e)ing Englishes as a Multilingual Migrant: “Talking Like I’m Ghetto”  68 Insights From Ervin’s Authentic Narrative  75 “Black Enough” as a Way to Belong  75 Questions to Consider  102 6.  Bridging Invisible Barriers With Black Immigrant Literacies: Building Solidarity Among Schools, Parents, and Communities  103 Parents  104 Schools and Teachers  118 Community  119 Summary  119 Afterword  133 Appendix  136 References  140 Index  155 About the Author  164

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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.

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