African American Literacies

Author : Elaine Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134492275

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African-American Literacies is a personal, public and political exploration of the problems faced by student writers from the African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) culture. Drawing on personal experience, Elaine Richardson provides a compelling account of the language and literacy practices of African-American students. The book analyses the problems encountered by the teachers of AAVE speakers, and offers African American centred theories and pedagogical methods of addressing these problems. Richardson builds on recent research to argue that teachers need not only to recognise the value and importance of African-American culture, but also to use African-American English when teaching AAVE speakers standard English. African-American Literacies offers a holistic and culturally relevant approach to literacy education, and is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the literacy practices of African-American students.

Author : Joyce L. Harris,Alan G. Kamhi,Karen E. Pollock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135664732

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Literacy in African American Communities by Joyce L. Harris,Alan G. Kamhi,Karen E. Pollock Pdf

This volume explores the unique sociocultural contexts of literacy development, values, and practices in African American communities. African Americans--young and old--are frequently the focus of public discourse about literacy. In a society that values a rather sophisticated level of literacy, they are among those who are most disadvantaged by low literacy achievement. Literacy in African American Communities contributes a fresh perspective by revealing how social history and cultural values converge to influence African Americans' literacy values and practices, acknowledging that literacy issues pertaining to this group are as unique and complex as this group's collective history. Existing literature on literacy in African American communities is typically segmented by age or academic discipline. This fragmentation obscures the cyclical, life-span effects of this population's legacy of low literacy. In contrast, this book brings together in a single-source volume personal, historical, developmental, and cross-disciplinary vantage points to look at both developmental and adult literacy from the perspectives of education, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, and communication sciences and disorders. As a whole, it provides important evidence that the negative cycle of low literacy can be broken by drawing on the literacy experiences found within African American communities.

Author : Elaine B. Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415268834

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This book addresses the literacy problems of African American students providing educators with an African American centred theory of rhetoric and composition.

Author : Arnetha F. Ball,Ted Lardner
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809388240

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African American Literacies Unleashed by Arnetha F. Ball,Ted Lardner Pdf

This pioneering study of African American students in the composition classroom lays the groundwork for reversing the cycle of underachievement that plagues linguistically diverse students. African American Literacies Unleashed: Vernacular English and the Composition Classroom approaches the issue of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in terms of teacher knowledge and prevailing attitudes, and it attempts to change current pedagogical approaches with a highly readable combination of traditional academic discourse and personal narratives. Realizing that composition is a particular form of social practice that validates some students and excludes others, Arnetha Ball and Ted Lardner acknowledge that many African American students come to writing and composition classrooms with talents that are not appreciated. To empower and inform practitioners, administrators, teacher educators, and researchers, Ball and Lardner provide knowledge and strategies that will help unleash the potential of African American students and help them imagine new possibilities for their successes as writers. African American Literacies Unleashed asserts that necessary changes in theory and practice can be addressed by refocusing attention from teachers’ knowledge deficits to the processes through which teachers engage information relevant to culturally informed pedagogy. Providing strategies for unlearning racism in the classroom and changing the status quo, this volume stresses the development and maintenance of a real sense of teaching efficacy— teachers’ beliefs in their abilities to connect with and work effectively with all students— and reflective optimism— teachers’ informed expectations that all students have the potential to succeed.

Author : Heather Andrea Williams
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442995406

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Self-Taught by Heather Andrea Williams Pdf

Author : April Baker-Bell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781351376709

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Linguistic Justice by April Baker-Bell Pdf

Bringing together theory, research, and practice to dismantle Anti-Black Linguistic Racism and white linguistic supremacy, this book provides ethnographic snapshots of how Black students navigate and negotiate their linguistic and racial identities across multiple contexts. By highlighting the counterstories of Black students, Baker-Bell demonstrates how traditional approaches to language education do not account for the emotional harm, internalized linguistic racism, or consequences these approaches have on Black students' sense of self and identity. This book presents Anti-Black Linguistic Racism as a framework that explicitly names and richly captures the linguistic violence, persecution, dehumanization, and marginalization Black Language-speakers endure when using their language in schools and in everyday life. To move toward Black linguistic liberation, Baker-Bell introduces a new way forward through Antiracist Black Language Pedagogy, a pedagogical approach that intentionally and unapologetically centers the linguistic, cultural, racial, intellectual, and self-confidence needs of Black students. This volume captures what Antiracist Black Language Pedagogy looks like in classrooms while simultaneously illustrating how theory, research, and practice can operate in tandem in pursuit of linguistic and racial justice. A crucial resource for educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students in language and literacy education, writing studies, sociology of education, sociolinguistics, and critical pedagogy, this book features a range of multimodal examples and practices through instructional maps, charts, artwork, and stories that reflect the urgent need for antiracist language pedagogies in our current social and political climate.

Author : Patricia A. Edwards,Gwendolyn Thompson McMillon,Jennifer D. Turner
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807770665

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Change Is Gonna Come by Patricia A. Edwards,Gwendolyn Thompson McMillon,Jennifer D. Turner Pdf

While many books decry the crisis in the schooling of African American children, they are often disconnected from the lived experiences and work of classroom teachers and principals. In this book, the authors look back to move forward, providing specific practices that K–12 literacy educators can use to transform their schools. The text addresses four major debates: the fight for access to literacy; supports and roadblocks to success; best practices, theories, and perspectives on teaching African American students; and the role of African American families in the literacy lives of their children. Throughout, the authors highlight the valuable lessons learned from the past and include real stories from their own diverse family histories and experiences as teachers, parents, and community members.

Author : Elaine Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134331635

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Hiphop Literacies by Elaine Richardson Pdf

Hiphop Literacies is an exploration of the rhetorical, language and literacy practices of African Americans, with a focus on the Hiphop generation. Richardson analyses the lyrics and discourse of Hiphop, explodes myths and stereotypes about Black culture and language and shows how Hiphop language is a global ambassador of the English language and American culture. Richardson examines African American Hiphop in secondary oral contexts such as rap music, song lyrics, electronic and digital media, oral performances and cinema and brings together issues and concepts that are explored in the disciplines of folklore, ethnomusicology, sociolinguistics, discourse studies and New Literacies Studies.

Author : Phyllis M. Belt-Beyan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313053108

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The Emergence of African American Literacy Traditions by Phyllis M. Belt-Beyan Pdf

The ways in which the African American community learned to be proficient readers and writers during the 19th century were diverse, however, the greatest impact on literacy acquisition came from family and community efforts. African American arts, churches, benevolent societies, newspapers, literacy societies, and formal and informal schools supported literacy growth, and literacy growth in turn gave rise to national and international African American literacy traditions. The underlying motivations that gave shape to the nature of their literacy behaviors and events within family and community contexts and within national and global context are examined in detail here. The beginnings of African American literacy traditions would have failed had there not been intrinsic motivations, opportunities, and a need to use all of the language arts, reading, writing, speaking, listening, and viewing to maintain and protect what mattered most to them as a people. The institutionalization of these traditions into family and community rituals, including songs, prayers, letters, story telling, and the like gave a visibility to the African American in ways no other cultural knowledge could. Belt-Beyan traces the development of these literacy traditions, noting the parallel progression and transformation of Africans into African Americans, slaves into freepersons, and noncitizens into citizens.

Author : Detra Price-Dennis,Gholnecsar E. Muhammad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429534607

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Black Girls' Literacies by Detra Price-Dennis,Gholnecsar E. Muhammad Pdf

Bringing together the voices of leading and emerging scholars, this volume highlights the many facets of Black girls’ literacies. As a comprehensive survey of the research, theories, and practices that highlight the literacies of Black girls and women in diverse spaces, the text addresses how sustaining and advancing their literacy achievement in and outside the classroom traverses the multiple dimensions of writing, comprehending literature, digital media, and community engagement. The Black Girls’ Literacies Framework lays a foundation for the understanding of Black girl epistemologies as multi-layered, nuanced, and complex. The authors in this volume draw on their collective yet individual experiences as Black women scholars and teacher educators to share ways to transform the identity development of Black girls within and beyond official school contexts. Addressing historical and contemporary issues within the broader context of inclusive education, chapters highlight empowering pedagogies and practices. In between chapters, the book features four "Kitchen Table Talk" conversations among contributors and leading Black women scholars, representing the rich history of spaces where Black women come together to share experiences and assert their voices. A crucial resource for educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students in language and literacy education, this book offers readers a fuller vision of the roles of literacy and English educators in the work to undo educational wrongs against Black girls and women and to create inclusive spaces that acknowledge the legitimacy and value of Black girls’ literacies.

Author : Arnetha F. Ball,Ted Lardner
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-12-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780809326600

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African American Literacies Unleashed by Arnetha F. Ball,Ted Lardner Pdf

This pioneering study of African American students in the composition classroom lays the groundwork for reversing the cycle of underachievement that plagues linguistically diverse students. African American Literacies Unleashed: Vernacular English and the Composition Classroom approaches the issue of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) in terms of teacher knowledge and prevailing attitudes, and it attempts to change current pedagogical approaches with a highly readable combination of traditional academic discourse and personal narratives. Realizing that composition is a particular form of social practice that validates some students and excludes others, Arnetha Ball and Ted Lardner acknowledge that many African American students come to writing and composition classrooms with talents that are not appreciated. To empower and inform practitioners, administrators, teacher educators, and researchers, Ball and Lardner provide knowledge and strategies that will help unleash the potential of African American students and help them imagine new possibilities for their successes as writers. African American Literacies Unleashed asserts that necessary changes in theory and practice can be addressed by refocusing attention from teachers’ knowledge deficits to the processes through which teachers engage information relevant to culturally informed pedagogy. Providing strategies for unlearning racism in the classroom and changing the status quo, this volume stresses the development and maintenance of a real sense of teaching efficacy—teachers’ beliefs in their abilities to connect with and work effectively with all students—and reflective optimism—teachers’ informed expectations that all students have the potential to succeed.

Author : Linda A. Spears-Bunton,Rebecca Powell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135625047

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Toward a Literacy of Promise by Linda A. Spears-Bunton,Rebecca Powell Pdf

"[This book] gives us strategies for bringing life back to school; it allows us to think creatively about connecting instruction to the lives of children who have not been well-served; it helps us learn to value the gifts with words our children of color bring; and it gives us hope for educating a generation that can change the status quo, that will build the America we have yet to see...the one that made that as-yet-unfulfilled promise of ‘liberty and justice for all.’" Lisa Delpit, From the Foreword Toward a Literacy of Promise examines popular assumptions about literacy and challenges readers to question how it has been used historically both to empower and to oppress. The authors offer an alternative view of literacy – a "literacy of promise" – that charts an emancipatory agenda for literacy instructional practices in schools. Weaving together critical perspectives on pedagogy, language, literature, and popular texts, each chapter provides an in-depth discussion that illuminates how a literacy of promise can be realized in school and classrooms. Although the major focus is on African American middle and secondary students as a population that has experienced the consequences of inequality, the chapters demonstrate general and specific applications to other populations.

Author : Vivian L. Gadsden,Daniel A. Wagner
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015033252704

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Literacy Among African-American Youth by Vivian L. Gadsden,Daniel A. Wagner Pdf

This volume expands on existing research in literacy and African-American education, and discusses a range of literacy issues confronting African-American and other youth in and out of school.

Author : Elizabeth McHenry
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0822329956

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Forgotten Readers by Elizabeth McHenry Pdf

DIVRecovers the history of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century African American reading societies./div

Author : Vershawn Ashanti Young,Rusty Barrett
Publisher : Parlor Press LLC
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781643170442

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Other People's English by Vershawn Ashanti Young,Rusty Barrett Pdf

With a new Foreword by April Baker-Bell and a new Preface by Vershawn Ashanti Young and Y’Shanda Young-Rivera, Other People’s English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy presents an empirically grounded argument for a new approach to teaching writing to diverse students in the English language arts classroom. Responding to advocates of the “code-switching” approach, four uniquely qualified authors make the case for “code-meshing”—allowing students to use standard English, African American English, and other Englishes in formal academic writing and classroom discussions. This practical resource translates theory into a concrete road map for pre- and inservice teachers who wish to use code-meshing in the classroom to extend students’ abilities as writers and thinkers and to foster inclusiveness and creativity. The text provides activities and examples from middle and high school as well as college and addresses the question of how to advocate for code-meshing with skeptical administrators, parents, and students. Other People’s English provides a rationale for the social and educational value of code-meshing, including answers to frequently asked questions about language variation. It also includes teaching tips and action plans for professional development workshops that address cultural prejudices.