Education 797U - ST-AfroAm Lit & Educ

The course will explore historical and pedagogical perspectives on African American literacies. Seminar readings will historicize African American English and language use in African American communities, as well as highlight the relationship among language, society, identity, and education. Additionally, we will examine ideas, practices and values associated with African American literacies. As we consider African American literacies among African American youth in the United States, we will address particular challenges, histories, and contemporary issues (i.e. African American student achievement, linguistic profiling and discrimination, and/or Literacy as a civil right), highlighted in a range of course readings by educational researchers, linguists, rhetoric scholars, poets, and activists.