Families and Communities: The Role of Liberatory Literacy Practices in (Re)Storying Lives

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

For this symposium, we explore the question: How do families and communities transcend oppressive contexts though literacy practices? We report on three research projects that aimed to understand the ways families and communities experiencing different forms of oppression shared their stories and attempted to reclaim and redefine their circumstances by using multimodal literacy practices and texts to transgress a variety of physical, political, and/or epistemological boundaries.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Media, Culture, and Learning

Cosponsor

• SIG-Writing and Literacies

Chair

• Ana Christina da Silva Iddings, Vanderbilt University

Papers

• (Re)Imagining Identities: Family Literacies Beyond Bars - Tori K. Flint, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette

• (Re)Storying Lives: Immigrant Mothers Mending Severed Histories for Their Children - Ana Christina da Silva Iddings, Vanderbilt University

• (Re)Claiming Power Through Collaborative Reggaeton Music Video Production in Habana, Cuba - Eliza Desiree Butler, Miami Dade College

Discussant

• Blaine E. Smith, University of Arizona