Article
“Mama, Let’s Read!”: Critical Race Perspectives and the Centrality of Language in Everyday Literacies
Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy
(2021)
Abstract
The author offers a creative braiding of stories about parenting, race, and language. The stories illuminate everyday literacies and related practices present in multilingual and multigenerational households as informed by critical race scholarship and pedagogies of the home. Implications for practice include questions for parents and educators in rethinking literacy studies in classrooms and beyond.
Disciplines
- Arts and Humanities,
- Comparative Literature,
- Creative Writing,
- Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies,
- Education,
- Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education,
- Curriculum and Social Inquiry,
- Liberal Studies,
- Adult and Continuing Education,
- Early Childhood Education and
- Language and Literacy Education
Publication Date
September, 2021
DOI
doi/full/10.1002/jaal.1209
Citation Information
Korina Jocson. "“Mama, Let’s Read!”: Critical Race Perspectives and the Centrality of Language in Everyday Literacies" Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (2021) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/korina_jocson/25/