Toward Literacies of Transnational Racialization: Recently Arrived Immigrant Youth Reading the World (Poster 20)

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Abstract

This study examined how Latin American, recently arrived, multilingual immigrant youth and their teacher critically engaged with teaching and learning about race, racism, and power in a 12th grade Ethnic Studies classroom in California. I bridge the framework of racial literacies with theories of transnational racialization to explore how newcomer youth navigated their social and political contexts. I argue that these students engaged in literacies of transnational racialization that were multiple, layered, and did not fit neatly into categories. Critical pedagogies seeking to honor and build upon students’ languages and literacies must take seriously the dynamic ways in which racially marked, multilingual, immigrant, and transnational youth racially read, write, and experience the world.

Author

• Rita Kamani-Renedo, Stanford University