Category: race
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You’re Invited to my Book Launch!
From the co-author of “Affirming Black Students’ Lives and Literacies: Bearing Witness,” join us to celebrate the launch of the book, “Black Immigrant Literacies: Intersections of Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom”! Event Details• December 7, 2023• TECO Hall, USF College of Education, Tampa Campus• 5:00 p.m. Reception in the College of Education Rotunda;…
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What will it take to rethink the idea of ‘invented illiteracy’ used to characterize Black peoples worldwide?
Recently, I attended another literacy function and was once again assailed by the insistence of well-intentioned educators on describing large numbers of students as “underperforming” due to their “illiteracy”. I was startled. It occurred to me that even with the insurmountable evidence we now have about students’ holistic literate capacities, there is a dedicated effort…
Patriann Smith, Ph.D. 