Extraordinary Literacies/Empyreal Logics: Regarding Praxes of Black Girls and Women in Schools and Society

• In Event: Race, Coloniality, and Occupation: Interrogating Dominant Logics and Conceptualizing Emancipatory Possibilities

Abstract

This paper presents a conceptual and practical framework that shows how Black girls and women decolonize their interior lives. By sharing the distinct and dynamic ways they generate praxes for wholeness, despite systemic oppressions that attempt to dismember them, I portraiture Black girls and women as leaders of third wave new literacies for the evolution of all people. I draw from surveys, webinars, interviews, and focus group data generated by participants healing from various injuries produced by micro, macro, and systemic aggressions occurring within schools and society. Through my findings, I push forward a new literacies theory of personhood by examining the effects (and (r)evolutions after) of race and gender injury among these venerable members of diverse communities.

Author

• Jeanine M. Staples, The Pennsylvania State University