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Literacy in African American Communities

Author : Joyce L. Harris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135664730
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Literacy in African American Communities written by Joyce L. Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Literacy in African American Communities

Author : Joyce L. Harris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135664749
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Literacy in African American Communities written by Joyce L. Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores developmental and adult literacy in African American communities from cross-disciplinary vantage points; focuses on influences of cultural socialization and literacy values and practices among many African Americans.

Self-Taught

Author : Heather Andrea Williams
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1442995408
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Self-Taught written by Heather Andrea Williams and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2009-06-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Linguistic Justice

Author : April Baker-Bell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351376705
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Linguistic Justice written by April Baker-Bell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

African Americans and Community Engagement in Higher Education

Author : Stephanie Y. Evans
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9781438428741
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book African Americans and Community Engagement in Higher Education written by Stephanie Y. Evans and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2009-09-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at town-gown relationships with a focus on African Americans.

Forgotten Readers

Author : Elizabeth McHenry
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822329954
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Readers written by Elizabeth McHenry and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-31 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVRecovers the history of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century African American reading societies./div

African American Males and Education

Author : T. Elon Dancy II
Publisher : IAP
ISBN 13 : 1617359432
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book African American Males and Education written by T. Elon Dancy II and published by IAP. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American Males in Education: Researching the Convergence of Race and Identity addresses a number of research gaps. This book emerges at a time when new social dynamics of race and other identities are shaping, but also shaped by, education. Educational settings consistently perpetuate racial and other forms of privilege among students, personnel, and other participants in education. For instance, differential access to social networks still visibly cluster by race, continuing the work of systemic privilege by promoting outcome inequalities in education and society. The issues defining the relationship between African American males and education remain complex. Although there has been substantial discussion about the plight of African American male participants and personnel in education, only modest attempts have been made to center analysis of identity and identity intersections in the discourse. Additionally, more attention to African American male teachers and faculty is needed in light of their unique cultural experiences in educational settings and expectations to mentor and/or socialize other African Americans, particularly males.

Race and Schooling in the South, 1880-1950

Author : Robert A. Margo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226505107
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Race and Schooling in the South, 1880-1950 written by Robert A. Margo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert A. Margo mines a wealth of newly available census data and school district records to explore the experience of blacks in the American economy. Identifying the links between educational expenditures, racial discrimination, and occupational mobility, he clarifies the costs of segregation.

A Community Text Arises

Author : Beverly J. Moss
Publisher : Hampton Press (NJ)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Community Text Arises written by Beverly J. Moss and published by Hampton Press (NJ). This book was released on 2003 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Community Text Arises emerges from an ethnographic study of literacy in three African-American churches. These data illuminate the ways that the primary model of a literate text is shaped and used in African-American churches. Chapter 1 examines how the African-American church has operated as a community within the larger African-American communities. Chapter 2 introduces, through ethnographic descriptions, the churches that the authors studies and Chapter 3 highlights the features of the major literacy event and text in African-American churches - the sermon. Through close analysis of individual sermons the author illustrates how the sermon functions as a community text. Chapter 4 focuses solely on the sermons of one minister to highlight rhetorical strategies that are used to create and main community identity. The analysis in chapters 3 and 4 provides a view of a text that calls into question traditionally held notions of text inside and outside the community. Therefore, chapter 5 deals with the implications of this study for how text is defined and the relation between oral and written texts.

Traces of a Stream

Author : Jacqueline Jones Royster
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 9780822972112
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Traces of a Stream written by Jacqueline Jones Royster and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A showcase for nineteenth-century African American women, and particularly elite women, as a group of writers who are currently underrepresented in rhetorical scholarship."--cover.

Change Is Gonna Come

Author : Patricia A. Edwards
Publisher : Teachers College Press
ISBN 13 : 0807770663
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Change Is Gonna Come written by Patricia A. Edwards and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Emergence of African American Literacy Traditions

Author : Phyllis M. Belt-Beyan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313053103
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of African American Literacy Traditions written by Phyllis M. Belt-Beyan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-10-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Liberating Language

Author : Shirley Wilson Logan
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809387123
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Liberating Language written by Shirley Wilson Logan and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2008-09-11 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberating Language identifies experiences of nineteenth-century African Americans—categorized as sites of rhetorical education—that provided opportunities to develop effective communication and critical text-interpretation skills. Author Shirley Wilson Logan considers how nontraditional sites, which seldom involved formal training in rhetorical instruction, proved to be effective resources for African American advancement. Logan traces the ways that African Americans learned lessons in rhetoric through language-based activities associated with black survival in nineteenth-century America, such as working in political organizations, reading and publishing newspapers, maintaining diaries, and participating in literary societies. According to Logan, rhetorical training was manifested through places of worship and military camps, self-education in oratory and elocution, literary societies, and the black press. She draws on the experiences of various black rhetors of the era, such as Frederick Douglass, Frances Harper, Fanny Coppin, Charles Chesnutt, Ida B. Wells, and the lesser-known Oberlin-educated Mary Virginia Montgomery, Virginia slave preacher "Uncle Jack," and former slave "Mrs. Lee." Liberating Language addresses free-floating literacy, a term coined by scholar and writer Ralph Ellison, which captures the many settings where literacy and rhetorical skills were acquired and developed, including slave missions, religious gatherings, war camps, and even cigar factories. In Civil War camp- sites, for instance, black soldiers learned to read and write, corresponded with the editors of black newspapers, edited their own camp-based papers, and formed literary associations. Liberating Language outlines nontraditional means of acquiring rhetorical skills and demonstrates how African Americans, faced with the lingering consequences of enslavement and continuing oppression, acquired rhetorical competence during the late eighteenth century and throughout the nineteenth century.

Education of the African American Adult

Author : Harvey Neufeldt
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Education of the African American Adult written by Harvey Neufeldt and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1990-07-24 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection highlight some of the efforts made by both blacks and whites to promote adult education for the African American community from 1619 to the present. Part I highlights adult education efforts in antebellum society. The flurry of educational activities within the African American community during the periods of the Civil War and Reconstruction are the focus of Part II. Part III examines institutional, governmental, and voluntary association efforts in black adult education since the 1890s.

Literacy as Moral Obligation among African Americans in the Rural Southeast

Author : Amy Johnson Lachuk
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498511937
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Literacy as Moral Obligation among African Americans in the Rural Southeast written by Amy Johnson Lachuk and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-10-28 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literacy as Moral Obligation among African Americans in the Rural Southeast providesdetailed descriptions of contemporary African American experiences with literacy and education in the rural South. In doing so, this book extends current understandings of sociocultural perspectives on literacy by illustrating how literacy practice is morally valenced, embodied, and narrative in quality. Johnson Lachuk argues that meaningful and ethical literacy instruction engages with perspectives that are embedded within a social and cultural community—that is, since literacy is linked to greater social mobility through institutional access for many persons, it is educators’ ethical responsibility to ensure that learners have the literacy knowledge required to do so. Recommended for scholars of literacy, education, and sociology.

Black Communications and Learning to Read

Author : Terry Meier
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000149625
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Black Communications and Learning to Read written by Terry Meier and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-19 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about effective literacy instruction for students in grades K-4 who use the language variety that many linguists call African American English, but which, as explained in the Introduction, the author calls Black Communications (BC). Throughout, considerable attention is given to discussing the integral and complex interconnections among African American language, culture, and history, drawing significantly on examples from African American historical and literary sources. Although it is theoretical in its description of the BC system and its discussion of research on language socialization in African American communities, the major focus of this book is pedagogy. Many concrete examples of successful classroom practices are included so that teachers can readily visualize and use the strategies and principles presented. *Part I, ‘What is Black Communications?” presents an overview of the BC system, providing a basic introduction to the major components of the language—phonology, grammar, lexicon, and pragmatics, and illustrating how these components work in synchrony to create a coherent whole. *Part II, “Language Socialization in the African American Discourse Community,” examines existing research on African American children’s language socialization. *Part III, “Using African American Children’s Literature,” draws connections between strategy instruction and the linguistic and rhetorical abilities discussed in Part II. Each chapter ends with suggestions for using African American literature to help children develop their speaking and writing abilities. *Part IV, “Children Using Language,” moves from a focus on teaching comprehension strategies to helping BC speakers learn to decode text. This volume is directed to researchers, faculty, and graduate students in the fields of language and literacy education and linguistics, and is well-suited as a text for graduate-level courses in these areas.

Education as Freedom

Author : Noel S. Anderson
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739132601
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Education as Freedom written by Noel S. Anderson and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009-01-16 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education as Freedom is a groundbreaking edited text that documents and reexamines African-American empirical, methodological, and theoretical contributions to knowledge-making, teaching, and learning and American education from the nineteenth through the twenty-first century, a dynamic period of African-American educational thought and activism. Education as Freedom is a long awaited text that historicizes the current racial achievement gap as well as illuminates the myriad of African American voices and actions to define the purpose of education and to push the limits of the democratic experiment in the United States.