The DJ as a Digital Griot and Putting African American Literacies into Perspective
So, my African American Literacies class is coming to a close with this last post and I thought I wanted to reflect on the class as a whole, and … Continue reading
Real Power Moves: Black Queer Literacies
So this week’s reading was a book entitled Fashioning Lives by Eric Darnell Pritchard. In his words, the purpose of the book was to “reconsider the relationship between literacy and … Continue reading
The Policing of Black Girls: “Why yall so loud, how you wear your hair, you fast”
This week I had to read three articles that, while they were about black feminism, didn’t really have any connection between them. One theme that I found interesting though, as … Continue reading
Traces of a Stream: Black Women’s Work K-Pop Edition (Part 1)
Before we get started with today’s book response, I’d like you to take the time to go through the screenshots in the slideshow below. Please excuse any and all foul … Continue reading
Black Folk, Narratives, Music and African American Church Literacies
I’m so sorry this is so long….it was over 17 minutes so I did cut it down some lol.
Traditional Literacies and the [Your]Self
Inspired by the writing style of Keith Gilyard in Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence, I want to share a little anecdote about myself and my experiences with … Continue reading
The Survival Games: African American Literacies
So over the past couple of posts, we’ve been discussing African American literacies. What literacy is in general, how the definition has changed over the past couple of years, and … Continue reading
Talkin and Testifyin…Black Semantics
#BlackHistoryMonth So I’m a English grad student and I’m in this class about African American Literacies. So our professor had us read this book this week called “Talkin and … Continue reading
…Literacy?
Whenever is said or heard the word “literacy,” I believed that it meant dealing with reading and writing; that it was the type of thing that would be associated with … Continue reading
Tragedy, Terror, Loss, Victim, Crime, Violence…
“I am so sorry. I am so disgusted. I’m afraid of our country, of what our people are becoming, of what the [our] future will hold, and of my not … Continue reading
The Prism Viewpoint 