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
6 - Translanguaging Imaginaries of Innocence
A Holistic Portrait of the Literacies of Black Caribbean Immigrant Youth
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 findings from interpretive analyses of the data as they relate to the multiliteracies and translanguaging practices engaged in by six Black Caribbean immigrant English-speaking youth across their Bahamian and Jamaican Caribbean home countries and the US. Specifically, I contextualize these findings within (decolonizing) interpretive analyses that clarify the raciolinguistic and raciosemiotic ideologies informing students’ multiliteracies and translanguaging practices. This chapter shows how the literacies of Black immigrant youth are enacted holistically by adeptly illustrating the languaging associated with these literacies and the ideologies influencing these literacies. Based on these findings, I propose and discuss the framework of semiolingual innocence for understanding how elements of multiliteracies and translanguaging practices as well as the raciolinguistic and raciosemiotic ideologies intersected to clarify the literacies leveraged by Black Caribbean immigrant youth. In turn, through semiolingual innocence emerging from transracialization of the Black immigrant as an analytical prism, I invite a reinscribing of the innocence of Black youth, whose ancestors have for centuries leveraged semiolingually, sans white gaze, their multiliteracies and semiotics for agentively reading and writing themselves into the world. Moreover, I argue for a semiolingual innocence of all youth, made possible through the cultivation of translanguaging and transsemiotizing imaginary presents and futures.
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- Literacies of MigrationTranslanguaging Imaginaries of Innocence, pp. 155 - 210Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024