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“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…
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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.
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My New Book is Finally Here!
Greetings Friends, Colleagues, Well-Wishers, Advocates! My new book “Black Immigrant Literacies: Intersections of Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom” is now available!
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Countdown to Release Day!
It’s November 1st and the countdown is now officially on for my book! “Black Immigrant Literacies: Intersections of Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom” will be available in 23 days! Here’s a sneak PEEK (Video Credit to Research Assistant Shawn P.). I can’t wait to share the beautiful goodness of this book of mine…
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What is the role of literacy teachers and researchers in helping us to think beyond partial understandings of literacy?
For far too long, the field of literacy in the United States has been content with epistemologies undergirding what it means to be literate and to do literacy, overlooking the knowledges embedded in the languages and languaging of children, youth, and people of Color at large. And so, what we tend to refer to as…
Patriann Smith, Ph.D. 