“I would love for teachers to teach in a way that relates to my culture”: African immigrant youth composing digital collages
Sandra Boateng,
Vaughn W. M. Watson,
Joel Berends
et al.
Abstract:We share digital collages composed by youth in Lit Diaspora, a community‐based after‐school literacy initiative involving Black African immigrant youth and adult collaborators, as one contemporary example of rendering visible the contours of the educational lives of African immigrant youth, among the fastest growing immigrant communities in the U.S. We do so amid anti‐Black, anti‐immigrant discourse and policy in schools, workplaces, and society in the U.S. and globally. Thus, in framing our inquiry, we examin… Show more
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