Literacies of Migration: Translanguaging Imaginaries of Innocence

by Patriann Smith

Drawing on the lived experiences of high school-aged young Black immigrants, this book paints imaginaries of racialized translanguaging and transsemiotizing, leveraged transnationally by teenagers across the Caribbean and the United States. The Black Caribbean youth reflect a full range of literacy practices - six distinct holistic literacies - identified as a basis for flourishing. These literacies of migration encapsulate numerous examples of how...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108839037
• ISBN13: 9781108839037
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"