Tag: Black language
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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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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…
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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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And my USF Official Book Launch is now Complete!
From the co-author of “Affirming Black Students’ Lives and Literacies: Bearing Witness,” we are so grateful for you joining us to celebrate the official launch of the book, “Black Immigrant Literacies: Intersections of Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom”! View snippets from the beautiful moments here!
Patriann Smith, Ph.D. 