Enacting Adolescent Literacies across Communities

Latino/a Scribes and Their Rites

By (author) R. Joseph Rodríguez Contributions by Kevin J. Burke

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Publication date:

30 November 2016

Length of book:

180 pages

Publisher

Lexington Books

ISBN-13: 9781498536455

Enacting Adolescent Literacies across Communities: Latino/a Scribes and Their Rites analyzes Latino/a adolescents’ engagement with the elements of literacy for English language arts learning and understanding. How young people enact literacies in their bicultural lives and understand literary traditions today reveals their own interests in democracy, equity, and opportunity. Moreover, the rites they perform often recover buried histories, mirrors, and stories similar to the pre-Columbian scribes whose intellectual legacy is relevant in the twenty-first century. R. Joseph Rodríguez illustrates how adolescents experience scribal identities and language pluralism that sustains their cultural knowledge as they make meaning and enact literacies with diverse audiences in civic and schooling communities.

Contents
Acknowledgements
Permissions
Epigraph: from “Imaginé un papel” / “I Pictured a Page” by Tino Villanueva
Foreword by Kevin J. Burke
Preface¡Escríbelo ya! Write It!
Chapter 1 Making Connections Come Alive across Literacies
Chapter 2 Histories and Scribes at Milagros High School
Chapter 3 Transcribing Identities at Guadalupe Middle School
Chapter 4 Adolescent Scribe’s Rites at Ciprés High School
Chapter 5 Teachers as Writing Whisperers at Cholla University
Chapter 6 Reading Ravens and Wild Readers among Us
Conclusion ¡Adelante y con brío, venerable Tlacuilo!
Notes from an Ethnographer and about Methodology
“Ode to Teachers” / “Oda a las maestras” by Pat Mora
Appendices
References
Index
About the Author

Enacting Adolescent Literacies across Communities: Latino/a Scribes and Their Rites by R. Joseph Rodríguez is a cutting-edge must read for literacy educators. Dr. Rodríguez provides an excellent narrative of adolescent development covering ELL, language, literacy, and culture. The stories, experiences, and passion in the book illustrate strength and brilliance by the adolescent participants.