EDUC 140AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: African American Vernacular English, Critical Pedagogy, Demography Of The United States
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The skin we ink: tattoos, literacy, and a new english education by. Multimodal opportunities exist for youth to express themselves which presents new challenges and possibilities for english education. Tattoos, for derrick, give literary agency and suggests the ability to manipulate texts for social participation, meaning making, and the connection of one"s reality through a symbol system. Contemporary literary theorists conceive of literacy as a social practice and illiteracy as a social problem. Literature commonly relays african american males as illiterate, and the literate ones as lacking and containing deficits in achievement results in a majority of america regarding or associating lack of intelligence with these particular ethnicities. One reason african american youth do poorly in school is b/c of language differences i. e. african american english b/c of lack of discussion regarding african american humanity, lack of it is often associated w/ lack of literacy. Seeing derrick"s tattoos showcased his entire humanity first and foremost.
