Black Lives Matter in Academic Spaces: Three Lessons for Critical Literacy. Issue 1 (2nd January 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Young, Vershawn Ashanti
• Is Part Of: Journal of college reading and learning. Volume 50:Issue 1(2020)
• Page Start: 5
• Page End: 18
• Publication Date: 2020-01-02
• Subjects: #BlackLivesMatter -- African Americans -- code-meshing -- code-switching -- literacy -- violence; Reading (Higher education) -- Periodicals; Reading -- Periodicals; Reading; Reading (Higher education); Electronic journals; Periodicals; 428.406
• DOI: 10.1080/10790195.2019.1710441
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1079-0195

Abstract

Abstract : This article analyzes several online performances from the Black Lives Matter movement for the ways they utilize and blend standard academic literacies and African American rhetoric. These performances are discussed as pedagogies of possibility that meet and exceed the common core standards. This talk also points up the crucial roles that racial dignity, ethics, and empathy should play in education.