Exploring Fugitive Literacies With Youth of Color in Out-of-School Spaces

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Scholars have challenged the idea of formal schooling being the "standard" type to marginalize other varieties and highlighted the need to center on students’ literacy practices in out of school spaces (Heath, 1982; Street, 2004). While studies centered on youth of color’s out of school literacies provide fruitful accounts of its value and acceptance, few seek to transform the power structures that perpetuate the marginalization (Varenne & McDermott, 2018). Through exploring youth of color’s fugitive literacies (Player et al., 2020) at home and other community spaces, this session highlights culturally and socially rich forms of literacies from minoritized communities, and politically charged accounts and inquiries toward the systems and power structures that define and rank such practices.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Writing and Literacies

Chair

• Monica Gonzalez Ybarra, University of Illinois

Papers

• Toward Critical Multimodality: Chinese American Bilinguals Retelling Chinese Folktales in a Chinese Heritage Community School - Jiadi Zhang, University of Missouri - St. Louis; Qinchun Li, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Family Multiliteracies Project: A Korean American Emergent Bilingual in the United States - Vikrant Chap, Purdue University

• Heritage Language Development of Korean American Youth in the Church - Hye-In Yang, Michigan State University