Category: BlackLanguage

• “Island of Hope, Island of Tears”: Racializing Ellis Island for Such a Time as This

  

  Alas, the quantum ancestral possibilities, imbued yet lying dormant for generations, now beckon, functioning as a remote reminder that our redemptive restitution rests only in our power to harness the shared humanity that binds us — Native peoples to immigrants; immigrant racialized as Black to immigrant racialized as white; descendant of the enslaved to (descendant…

  Dr. Patriann Smith

  June 12, 2025

  Black, Black immigrant literacies, Black immigrant literacy, Black immigrants, Black literacy, BlackLanguage, education, English, Englishes, immigration, language, literacies, literacy, race, Uncategorized

  Africa, Africans, Black English, Black immigrant literacies, Black immigrants, Black immigrants in the united states, Black immigration, Black language, Black literacies, Black literacy, Black people, education, Ellis Island, enslaved, history, innocence, language, literacies of migration, literacy, politics, race, raciolinguistics, racism, slaves, translanguaging, translanguaging imaginaries of innocence, White immigrants

• “Sans “White Gaze”: From the Transgressive Multilingual Radiance of a Franco-Malian Pop Star to the Transnational Englishes of Innocent Caribbean Youth”

  

  Thanks to Cambridge University Press & Assessment, my blog post “Sans “White Gaze”: From the Transgressive Multilingual Radiance of a Franco-Malian Pop Star to the Transnational Englishes of Innocent Caribbean Youth” is now available in Fifteen Eighty Four.

  Dr. Patriann Smith

  April 15, 2025

  Black, Black immigrant literacies, Black immigrant literacy, Black immigrants, Black literacy, BlackLanguage, education, English, Englishes, immigration, language, literacies, literacy, race

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• Because a Redemptive Justice for Black Immigrants Means Nothing if not a Just Liberation for All 

  

  And though just one mother, one scholar, one small-island human, one Black transnational #SaintLucian called into this journey of becoming #American, yet forever an #immigrant with insufficient history of the facts to know all there is about the Israeli-Palestinian war or all wars — what my spirit tells me is morally right, inherently humane, and…

  Dr. Patriann Smith

  November 6, 2024

  Black, Black immigrant literacies, Black immigrant literacy, Black immigrants, Black literacy, BlackLanguage, education, English, Englishes, Gaza, immigration, Israel, language, literacies, literacy, Palestine, race

  #America, #Caribbean, #CARICOM, #election, #United Nations, Black English, Black Englishes, Black language, Black literacy, Black people, collectiveconsciousness, education, Gaza, human-rights, humanity, humanrights, Israel, justice, language, literacy, Palestine, raciolinguistics, sharedhumanity, UNESCO, United States, White House

• Panelist: White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans

  

  On June 12 & 13, 2024, the White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans and Discovery Education, convened the Power Up summit in Chicago, IL under the leadership of Malcolm Kenyatta (Chair, Presidential Advisory Commission) & Monique S. Toussaint (MA, GCDF), Senior Advisor, White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic…

  Dr. Patriann Smith

  June 27, 2024

  Black, Black immigrant literacies, Black immigrant literacy, Black immigrants, Black literacy, BlackLanguage, education, English, Englishes, immigration, language, literacies, literacy, race

  and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans, Black Americans, Black English, Black immigrant literacies, Black immigrant literacy, Black immigrants, Black literacy, Black people, education, Excellence, illiteracy, language, learning, literacy, quantum physics, raciolinguistics, reading, teaching, transdisciplinarity, White House, White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity

• Black Immigrant Literacies: A Prism of Promise

  

  On Tuesday, February 13, 2024 Teachers College Press hosted the webinar “Black Immigrant Literacies: A Prism of Promise,” a conversation featuring esteemed scholars, Drs. Allison Skerrett, Aria Razfar, Shondel Nero, and Vaughn V. M. Watson, and moderated by two exceptional minds, Drs. Eurydice Bauer and Gwendolyn McMillon. A video of the webinar is now available.

  Dr. Patriann Smith

  March 1, 2024

  Black, Black immigrant literacies, Black immigrant literacy, Black immigrants, Black literacy, BlackLanguage, education, English, Englishes, immigration, language, literacies, literacy, race, Uncategorized

  Black, Black English, Black Englishes, Black immigrant literacies, Black immigrant literacy, Black language, Black people, BlackImmigrantsintheUnitedStates, Blackliteracy, books, culture, education, immigration, language, literacy, MiaAmorMottley, race, raciolinguistics, reading