Tag: race
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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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Transnationalism and Exoticism: Juxtaposing Caribbean and American Literacies
The Journal of Language and Literacy Education (JoLLE), under the editorship of Cris Barabas and Zihan Lin, recently published its 20th volume, “Multiliteracies as Pedagogy: Connecting, Advocating, Resisting.” In this volume, Dr. Patriann Smith was honored to share the brief article, “Transnational Raciosemiolingual Normalization and the Schizophrenic Exoticism of Literacies” as part of the section,…
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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. 