Reading and relevance, reimagined : celebrating the literacy lives of young men of color / Katie Sciurba ; foreword by Alfred W. Tatum.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sciurba, Katie, author.

Contributor:

Tatum, Alfred W., writer of foreword.

Series:

Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.)

Language and literacy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American teenagers--Education (Secondary).

African American teenagers.

African American teenagers--Books and reading.

African American boys--Books and reading.

African American boys.

African American youth--Interviews.

African American youth.

Reading (Secondary)--United States.

Reading (Secondary).

Relevance.

Physical Description:

xv, 151 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Celebrating the literacy lives of young men of color

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Teachers College Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Through conversations with six young men, which took place across ten years - beginning when they were attending a single-sex middle school in New York City - this book defines, and therefore reconceptualizes with nuance, the term relevance as it applies to and is applied within (literacy) education contexts. Four dimensions of relevance - Identity, Spatiality, Temporality, and Ideology - are introduced as a means for guiding educators in supporting the reading experiences of students in ways that do not essentialize them or treat them as racial, ethnic, gender, or other monoliths. Framing relevance from a student-centered perspective, as the condition of being practically, socially, and/or conceptually applicable to one's life, this book aims to disrupt problematic enactments of relevance in literacy spaces - enactments rooted in assumptions about who young people are, culturally or otherwise, as well as how they think and maneuver through the spaces and times comprising their worlds"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Identity

Identity, identification, and relevance

Identity and relevance: In the young men's words

The young men's interiorities/subjectivities-personal experiences

The young men's collectivities-race, ethnicity, and gender

Identity and disruptive relevance

Spatiality

Place, space, and spatiality

Spatiality and all boys academy: Textual relevance in a space

Intended for young men of color

Spatiality beyond ABA: Textual relevance in predominantly white spaces

Spatiality and disruptive relevance

Temporality

Time, temporality, and world-articulation

Textual relevance then, now, and In between

Ideology

Ideology, the world, and textual relevance

Ideology and the young men's literacy lives

Ideology as world-articulation

Reading and relevance, reimagined: A finale and a beginning

Four dimensions of relevance: Intersections and disruptions

Textual relevance as a means of critical mobility

Multiple possibilities for every book: The power of a multidimensional approach to relevance.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Sciurba, Katie. Reading and relevance, reimagined

ISBN:

9780807786246

0807786241

9780807786253

080778625X

OCLC:

1425871325