Full Description
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.
Contents
Contents (Tentative)
Foreword
Dr. Shondel Nero
Acknowledgments and Dedication
1. INTRODUCTION
The Framework for Black Immigrant Literacies
Authentic Narratives
A Call to Teachers, Educators, Schools, and Policymakers
Envisioning Imaginary Futures with Black Immigrant Literacies
Overview of the Chapters
2. RE-ENVISIONING THE LITERACIES OF BLACK IMMIGRANT YOUTH
A Brief History and Demographics of Black Immigrants in the United States
Intersections Surrounding Black Immigrant Youth as a "New Model Minority"
Languaging and Englishes of Black Immigrants: A Selective Review
Peer interactions in the Black Immigrant Experience
(Re)envisioning the Literacies of Black Immigrant Youth
Summary
Questions to Consider
3. THE FRAMEWORK FOR BLACK IMMIGRANT LITERACIES
Elements of the Black Immigrant Literacies Framework
Intersectional Lenses Undergirding "Black Immigrant Literacies"
Applying the "Black Immigrant Literacies" Framework
Questions to Consider
4. TEACHING CHLOE, A BLACK JAMAICAN LITERATE IMMIGRANT: ENTANGLEMENTS OF ENGLISHES, RACE, AND MIGRATION
Chloe's Authentic Narrative: Entanglements of Englishes, Race, and Migration: 'You'll Never Hear Her Speak, Like Broken'
Questions to Consider
5. TEACHING ERVIN, A BLACK BAHAMIAN LITERATE IMMIGRANT: FOSTERING PEER INTERACTIONS
Ervin's Authentic Narrative: Rac(e)ing Englishes as a Multilingual Migrant: "Talking Like I'm Ghetto"
Insights From Ervin's Authentic Narrative
"Black Enough" as a Way to Belong
Questions to Consider
6. BRIDGING INVISIBLE BARRIERS WITH BLACK IMMIGRANT LITERACIES: BUILDING SOLIDARITY AMONG SCHOOLS, PARENTS, AND COMMUNITIES
Parents
Schools and Teachers
Community
Summary
APPENDIX
REFERENCES
About the Author
