|9780822968221|Relocating Hmong Language, Literacy, and Culture|There are large Hmong communities that relocated to Minnesota and Wisconsin following the end of the Laotian Civil War in 1975. Many of the children of these refugees are adults now who use translingual literacies as a bridge to connect places, cultures, and generations in their communities. These connections of language and culture are made manifest through literacy. Simon presents an ethnographic study of Hmong women. Their experiences reveal the relationships between displacement, relocation, education, literacy, cultural preservation, and upward social mobility. She engages directly with urgent conversations currently animating literacy and composition studies: immigration,…

|9780822949138|Relocating Hmong Language, Literacy, and Culture|There are large Hmong communities that relocated to Minnesota and Wisconsin following the end of the Laotian Civil War in 1975. Many of the children of these refugees are adults now who use translingual literacies as a bridge to connect places, cultures, and generations in their communities. These connections of language and culture are made manifest through literacy. Simon presents an ethnographic study of Hmong women. Their experiences reveal the relationships between displacement, relocation, education, literacy, cultural preservation, and upward social mobility. She engages directly with urgent conversations currently animating literacy and composition studies: immigration,…

|9780822967712|Drawing on two years of ethnographic research mixed with archival work, Immigrants, Brokers, and Literacy as Affinity explores literacy’s entanglement in networks of economic and political forces. Ligia A. Mihut proposes and theorizes the figure of the literacy broker, embodied by those who help immigrants with reading and writing as they cross national, cultural, and linguistic borders. Whether these brokers use personal stories, language of empathy, or social connections, they collectively develop an emotional discourse repertoire that Mihut has coined as literacy as affinity. As such, literacy as affinity is explored in various locales where unequal power dynamics may emerge:…

|9780822948636|Drawing on two years of ethnographic research mixed with archival work, Immigrants, Brokers, and Literacy as Affinity explores literacy’s entanglement in networks of economic and political forces. Ligia A. Mihut proposes and theorizes the figure of the literacy broker, embodied by those who help immigrants with reading and writing as they cross national, cultural, and linguistic borders. Whether these brokers use personal stories, language of empathy, or social connections, they collectively develop an emotional discourse repertoire that Mihut has coined as literacy as affinity. As such, literacy as affinity is explored in various locales where unequal power dynamics may emerge:…

|9780822947295|Tools for Perseverance and Livable Futures|Decolonial projects can end up reinforcing dominant modes of thinking by shoehorning understandings of Indigenous and non-Western traditions within Eurocentric frameworks. The pluralization of literacies and the creation of so-called alternative rhetorics accepts that there is a totalizing reality of rhetoric and literacy. This volume seeks to decenter these theories and to engage Indigenous contexts on their own terms, starting with the very tools of representation. Language itself can disrupt normative structures and create pluriversal possibilities. The volume editors and contributors argue for epistemic change at the level of the language and media that people…