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Blackness as intervention: Black English outer spaces and the rupturing of antiblackness and/in English education

Justin A. Coles, +1 more
- 25 Oct 2021 - 
- Vol. 20, Iss: 4, pp 454-484
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This article is published in English Teaching-practice and Critique.The article was published on 2021-10-25. It has received 4 citations till now.

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“We just do us”: How Black teachers co-construct Black teacher fugitive space in the face of antiblackness

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors present findings from an empirical study that sought to understand how Black teachers collectively built a Black affinity space in response to the antiblackness they faced in their school sites, and draw on notions of fugitivity from Black Studies to theorize this space as a pro-Black fugitive space.
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“Getting lost in stars and glitter”: black girls’ multimodal literacies as portals to new suns

TL;DR: Using Octavia Butler's prophetic writing, specifically passages from her Parable series, as a conceptual lens, this article explored the ways one Black girl uses multimodal literacies to imagine new worlds that center and celebrate her Black girlhood.
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Girls of Color Embodied and Experiential Dreams for Education

TL;DR: The authors explored an after-school writing club for middle school girls of Color (GOC) and argued that GOC consistently leverage incisive critiques of schooling through multiple literacies, including embodied and experiential ways of knowing and communicating.
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Storying against non-human/superhuman narratives: Black youth Afro-futurist counterstories in qualitative research

TL;DR: In this article , the authors present two composite Afro-futurist counterstories developed by Black high school students in a summer writing course, which confront antiblackness and disrupt the ways the regime makes educators complicit in seeing Black youth as nonhuman/superhuman.
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‘A friend who understand fully’: notes on humanizing research in a multiethnic youth community

TL;DR: This article conceptualized ethnographic, qualitative, and social language research with marginalized and oppressed communities as humanizing research and provided evidence that such humanization is not only ethically necessary but also increases the validity of the truths we gain through research.
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Relocating the Deficit Reimagining Black Youth in Neoliberal Times

TL;DR: This article conducted a study with 20 youth workers at a college completion and youth development after-school program in the urban Northeast and found that deep tensions arise as youth workers strive to reimagine Black youth in humanizing ways despite pressures to frame them as broken and in need of fixing to compete for funding with charter schools.
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Open Mics and Open Minds: Spoken Word Poetry in African Diaspora Participatory Literacy Communities

TL;DR: Maisha T. Fisher as discussed by the authors explores the resurgence of spoken word and poetry venues in the Black community and their salience as venues for cultural identity development and literacy practice, and describes two open mic poetry settings that recall the feeling and communal centrality of jazz clubs and literary circles of the Harlem Renaissance.
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The african diaspora : toward and ethnography of diasporic identification

TL;DR: The authors offers an analysis of theoretical models developed around the concept of the African Diaspora, focusing on essential features common to various peoples of African descent or focusing on diaspora as a condition of hybridity characterized by displacement and dispersed identities.
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Starting with Self: Teaching Autoethnography to Foster Critically Caring Literacies.

TL;DR: The authors found that auto-ethnographies increased students' knowledge of self and, upon recognizing one another's all-too-familiar struggles, the classroom climate became more conducive to constructing a critical common identity among youth of color.
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