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    Educating African Immigrant Youth
    Schooling and Civic Engagement in K-12 Schools

    Vaughn W. M. Watson (Edited by), Michelle G. Knight-Manuel (Edited by), Patriann Smith (Edited by)

    9780807769812

    Hardback, published 28 June 2024

    256 pages
    23.5 x 16.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.272 kg

    This book illuminates emerging perspectives and possibilities of the vibrant schooling and civic lives of Black African youth and communities in the United States, Canada, and globally. Chapters present key research on how to develop and enact teaching methodologies and research approaches that support Black African immigrant and refugee students. The contributors illuminate contours of the Framework for Educating African Immigrant Youth which focuses on four complementary approaches for teaching and learning: emboldening tellings of diaspora narratives; navigating pasts, presence, and futures of teaching and learning; enacting social civic literacies to extend complex identities; and affirming and extending cultural, heritage, and embodied knowledges, languages, and practices. The frameworks and practices will strengthen how educators address the interplay of identities presented by African, and by extension, Black immigrant populations. Disciplinary perspectives include literacy and language, social studies, civics, mathematics, and higher education; university and community partnerships; teacher education; global and comparative education, and after-school initiatives.

    Book Features:

    • A focus on honoring and affirming the range of youth and community's diverse, embodied, social-civic literacies and lived experiences as part of their educational journey, reframing harmful narratives of immigrant youth, families, and Africa.
    • Chapter authors that include Black African scholars, early-career, and senior scholars from a range of institutions, including in the United States and Canada.
    • Chapters that draw on and extend a range of theoretical lenses grounded in African epistemologies and ontologies, as well as postcolonial and/or decolonizing approaches, culturally relevant and sustaining frameworks, language and literacy as a social practice, transnationalism, theater as social action, transformative and asset-based processes and practices, migration, and emotional capital, and more.
    • A cross-disciplinary approach that addresses the scope and heterogeneity of African immigrant youth racialized as Black and their schooling, education, and civic engagement experiences. Implications are considered for teachers, teacher educators, and community educators.

    Contents

    Foreword Awad Ibrahim  vii

    1.  Introduction  1
    Vaughn W. M. Watson, Michelle G. Knight-Manuel, and Patriann Smith

    Part I: Schooling and Classroom Perspectives and Contexts  
    Sandra Boateng and Vaughn W. M. Watson

    2.  Toward a Reckoning and Affirmation of Black African Immigrant Youth in U.S. P–12 Schools  21
    Omiunota Nelly Ukpokodu

    3.  Africanfuturism and Critical Mathematics Education: Envisioning a Liberatory Future for Sub-Saharan African Immigrants  43
    Oyemolade (Molade) Osibodu and Nyimasata Damba Danjo

    4.  African Lives Matter Too: Affirming African Heritage Students' Experience in the History Classroom  54
    Irteza Anwara Mohyuddin

    5.  A Narrative Inquiry Into Experiences of Black Women in Undergraduate STEM Disciplines in Ontario  68
    James Alan Oloo and Priscila Dias Corrêa

    Part II: Participatory and Communal Approaches to Learning and Civic Engagement
    Michelle G. Knight-Manuel and Dorothy Khamala

    6.  Always Remember What's Behind You So You Can Reach What's in Front of You: The Transnational Civic Engagement of a West African High School Student  87
    Patrick Keegan

    7.  An Affect-Centered Analysis of Congolese Immigrant Parent Perspectives on Past-Present-Future Learning in School and at Home  99
    Liv T. Dávila and Susan A. Ogwal

    8.  Imaging and Imagining Activism: Exploring Embodied and Digital Learning Through Filmmaking With African Immigrant Girls During the Pandemic  110
    Maryann J. Dreas-Shaikha, OreOluwa Badaki, and Jasmine L. Blanks Jones

    9.  Social Cohesion, Belonging, and Anti-Blackness: African Immigrant Youth's Civic Exploration in a Culturally Relevant-Sustaining, After-School Club  129
    Michelle G. Knight-Manuel, Natacha Robert, and Sibel Akin-Sabuncu

    Part III: Literacies, Languages, and Learning: Toward Emerging Practices and Approaches
    Patriann Smith

    10.  Unboxing Black Immigrant Youth's Heritage Resources  147
    David Bwire Wandera

    11.  Opening Space to Participate—One Nigerian Girl's Use of Visual Arts to Navigate School-Based Linguistic Discrimination  161
    Lakeya Afolalu

    12.  Theorizing Rightful Literary Presence and Participatory Curriculum Design With African Immigrant Youth  173
    Joel E. Berends, Vaughn W. M. Watson, and Dinamic Kubengana

    13.  Conclusion  191
    Vaughn W. M. Watson, Michelle G. Knight-Manuel, and Patriann Smith

    References  197

    Index  228

    About the Editors and Contributors  241
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