Who Set You Flowin?

Griffin, Farah Jasmine

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“…This is what made Malcolm X stand out as a leader. While some might (rightfully) argue that Black students are drawn to the nationalistic learnings of Malcolm X (Griffin, 1995), the students in this study were more affected by the leader's tenacity in fighting for what he ultimately believed in: a racially united coalition against inequality. It is quite possible that Mr. Lorenzo, the teacher who introduced this book to the seventh-grade class, guided Michael, Adrian, and their classmates to focus on such elements of Malcolm X's life story.…”

Section: Empathetic Relevance: Mirroring the Hero's Journeymentioning

confidence: 71%

Journeys Toward Textual Relevance: Male Readers of Color and the Significance of Malcolm X and Harry Potter

Sciurba

2017

Journal of Literacy Research

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This article combines interview data from a group of boys of color at an urban single-sex school and content analysis of The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to demonstrate the complexities of readers' responses to literature. Textual relevance, or the ability to construct personal meaning from literature, emerged in two principal forms: (a) empathetic textual relevance (a mirror approach) and (b) sympathetic textual relevance (a window approach). In addition, textual relevance took shape in forms beyond mirrors or windows. In building upon theories of intersectionality and reader response, I argue that acknowledging the multi-dimensionality of readers' identities and their meaning-making processes can pave the way for youth empowerment. As such, this work aims to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of students' experiences as readers and to enhance literacy practices designed to promote equity.

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Section: Empathetic Relevance: Mirroring the Hero's Journeymentioning

confidence: 71%

Journeys Toward Textual Relevance: Male Readers of Color and the Significance of Malcolm X and Harry Potter

Sciurba

2017

Journal of Literacy Research

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“…By the mid-1940s, the combined effect of increasingly abundant jobs in the urban north and the ever-present desire to flee the brutalities of Jim Crow generated an exodus of African-Americans from the rural south. The outcomes of this exodus would have transformative effects on the overall African-American experience, effects that were ultimately manifest worldwide (Griffin 1996;Strait 2019). When the Southern Diaspora was complete, a population that had formerly been mostly southern and rural had become mostly urban and spread throughout the United States.…”

Section: The Great Southern Diaspora and Its Impact On African-americansmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A major reason the Southern Diaspora was so significant, and perhaps the major reason why it was so impactful for African-Americans, was because it was so thoroughly documented and narrated. This particular migration was written about in newspapers, analyzed by social scientists, memorialized in novels, lampooned by comics, and depicted via music, television, film, radio, and the visual arts (Palmer 1982;Grossman 1989;Griffin 1996;Gregory 2005). Most importantly, these various forms of narration were occurring before, during and after the migration, and not just by observers, but also frequently by migrants themselves.…”

Section: Narrating and Diffusing The Diaspora Via A Global Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Voice of the Southern Diaspora: Muddy Waters and the Multi-Layered Influences Associated with the Diffusion of Blues Culture

Strait

2020

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This paper focuses on the dynamic nature of the Southern Diaspora, the twentieth-century mass migration of African-Americans in the United States from the rural south to the urban north and west. The significant migratory links between the Mississippi Delta and Chicago, Illinois, and the influences it had on the larger diaspora are emphasized. The music of famed blues artist Muddy Waters is used as a lens to demonstrate both the causes and the significant impacts of this diaspora. By exploring the multi-layered circuitry of change associated with the evolution and diffusion of Delta blues music, this paper reveals the transnational and transcultural dimensions of the Southern Diaspora.

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“…Beneath the charm lay the horror." 30 Crèvecoeur's narrator makes no attempt to hide his disgust and ends his letter with a horrifying encounter with a dying slave in the wilderness. Invited to dinner at a planter's home, James walks "a small path leading through a pleasant wood" (177-78).…”

Section: The Racial Ecogothicmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Keetley¹,

Sivils

2017

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In its broadest sense, the ecogothic is a literary mode at the intersection of environmental writing and the gothic, and it typically presupposes some kind of ecocritical lens. Indeed, in the only book devoted to the topic, Andrew Smith and William Hughes define ecogothic as "exploring gothic through ecocriticism," demonstrating the virtual inextricability of the two concepts. 1 Emergent in the 1990s, ecocriticism has devoted itself to studying the literary and cultural relationships of humans to the nonhuman world-to animals, plants, minerals, climate, and ecosystems. Adopting a specifically gothic ecocritical lens illuminates the fear, anxiety, and dread that often pervades those relationships: it orients us, in short, to the more disturbing and unsettling aspects of our interactions with nonhuman ecologies. 2 In truth, the dominant American relationship with nature, whatever else it might have been, has always been unsettling. Two centuries before eighteenth-century writers Horace Walpole and

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Who Set You Flowin?

Cited by 437 publications

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Journeys Toward Textual Relevance: Male Readers of Color and the Significance of Malcolm X and Harry Potter

Journeys Toward Textual Relevance: Male Readers of Color and the Significance of Malcolm X and Harry Potter

The Voice of the Southern Diaspora: Muddy Waters and the Multi-Layered Influences Associated with the Diffusion of Blues Culture

Ecogothic in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

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