Book contents
- Literacies of Migration
- Literacies of Migration
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Foreword: Reimagining Sociological and Political Brilliance in the Languaging Practices of Youth
- Foreword: A Courageous Conversation on Blackness, Language, and Immigration Centering the Biographical and Autobiographical
- Acknowledgments and Dedication
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Why ‘New Model Minority’ Youth?
- 3 Afro-Caribbean Languaging, Englishes, and Literacies of Migration across the Black Diaspora
- 4 Conceptualizing Translanguaging in Black Immigrant Literacies
- 5 Methodologically Examining Black Immigrant Literacies
- 6 Translanguaging Imaginaries of Innocence
- 7 Reinscribing Lost Imaginaries of Semiolingual Innocence
- Afterword: Imagining Pedagogical Possibilities beyond Normative Educational Perspectives
- Notes
- References
- Index
4 - Conceptualizing Translanguaging in Black Immigrant Literacies
Multiliteracies, Raciolinguistics, Language and Raciosemiotic Architecture
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 November 2024
- Literacies of Migration
- Literacies of Migration
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Foreword: Reimagining Sociological and Political Brilliance in the Languaging Practices of Youth
- Foreword: A Courageous Conversation on Blackness, Language, and Immigration Centering the Biographical and Autobiographical
- Acknowledgments and Dedication
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Why ‘New Model Minority’ Youth?
- 3 Afro-Caribbean Languaging, Englishes, and Literacies of Migration across the Black Diaspora
- 4 Conceptualizing Translanguaging in Black Immigrant Literacies
- 5 Methodologically Examining Black Immigrant Literacies
- 6 Translanguaging Imaginaries of Innocence
- 7 Reinscribing Lost Imaginaries of Semiolingual Innocence
- Afterword: Imagining Pedagogical Possibilities beyond Normative Educational Perspectives
- Notes
- References
- Index
Summary
In this chapter, I present a conceptual framework for understanding the perspectives used as lenses to examine the construct of Black immigrant literacies in this book. The chapter begins with a historicizing of multiliteracies and translanguaging followed by a description of the way in which literacy has emerged as a sociocultural and multimodal practice. Raciolinguistics, a raciolinguistic perspective, transracialization, as well as language and raciosemiotic architecture are then presented in tandem, highlighting how linguistic and broader semiotic affordances work based on ideologies steeped in racialized language and semiotics. In turn, raciolinguistic and raciosemiotic ideologies influencing multiliteracies of Black immigrant youth are discussed as well as mechanisms such as a transraciolinguistic approach which function as an avenue for understanding how Black immigrants leverage literacies in relation to peers. Following this, translanguaging based on an integrated model of multilingualism is presented along with a description of the ways in which Black immigrants’ language practices have been examined and intersect to undergird the current study regarding the literacies of Black immigrant youth. In doing so, connections across these concepts as well as the potential influence of race-based ideologies for clarifying Black immigrants’ multiliteracies are illuminated through attention to translanguaging and transsemiotizing with Englishes.
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- Literacies of MigrationTranslanguaging Imaginaries of Innocence, pp. 108 - 132Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024