Tag: Africa

• “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

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  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