Maisha T. Fisher

Black Literate Lives

Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Black Literate Lives offers an innovative approach to understanding the complex and multi-dimensional perspectives of Black literate lives in the United States. Author Maisha Fisher reinterprets historiographies of Black self-determination and self-reliance to powerfully interrupt stereotypes of African-American literacy practices. The book expands the standard definitions of literacy practices to demonstrate the ways in which 'minority' groups keep their cultures and practices alive in the face of oppression, both inside and outside of schools. This important addition to critical literacy studies: -Demonstrates the relationship of an expanded definition of literacy to self-determination and empowerment -Exposes unexpected sources of Black literate traditions of popular culture and memory -Reveals how spoken word poetry, open mic events, and everyday cultural performances are vital to an understanding of Black literacy in the 21st century By centering the voices of students, activists, and community members whose creative labors past and present continue the long tradition of creating cultural forms that restore collective, Black Literate Lives ultimately uncovers memory while illuminating the literate and literary contributions of Black people in America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 301g
• ISBN-13: 9780415958653
• ISBN-10: 0415958652
• Artikelnr.: 22580156

Autorenporträt

Maisha T. Fisher is Assistant Professor in language, literacy, and culture in the Division of Educational Studies at Emory University.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Vanessa Siddle Walker
An introduction: Not yet free
Chapter One: Toward a theory of black literate lives
Chapter Two: "I don't want us to forget the fire": The literacy activism of
Gwendolyn Brooks
Chapter Three: Agitating, Educating, and Organizing: The making of
revolutionary literacies
Chapter Four: "The song is unfinished": Soldiering in participatory
literacy communities
Chapter Five: Catching the Fire: Black teachers as literacy activists in
urban public schools
Appendix A: Notes on Methodology
Appendix B: "The 15 Demands of the African American Students' Association"
as printed in Black News on December 1, 1969, Volume 1, Number 5
Appendix C: The Assata Shakur Project for Spoken Word/Multicultural
Literature