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A Poetic Analysis of Youth's Critical Literacies as a Way of Being in and Beyond School

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: ABSTRACT This article explores the critical literacies of Black and Latinx high school students who participated in a youth participatory action research project focused on racial injustice in education. The author utilizes poetic analysis of data collected in research about youth's work to viscerally render youth's everyday ways of employing critical literacies to care for their community, understand injustice, and experience happiness. This analysis uses asset orientations to literacy to make the case that youth's critical literacies are connected to long traditions of resistance employed by people of color to navigate racist realities, existing before and beyond critical literacy instruction in schools.

Source: Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy

DOI: 10.1002/jaal.70032

Author: Aimee Hendrix‐Soto

Institution: Texas Woman's University

Language: English

Topic: Critical Race Theory in Education

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Quality education, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,870