Publisher's Synopsis
COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL 18.1 (Fall 2023) The journal understands "community literacy" as the domain for literacy work outside mainstream educational and work institutions. It can be found in programs devoted to adult education, early childhood education, reading initiatives, lifelong learning, workplace literacy, or work with marginalized populations, but it can also be found in more informal, ad hoc projects. For COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL, literacy is the realm where attention is paid not just to content or knowledge but to the symbolic means by which it is represented and used. Thus, literacy makes reference not just to letters and to text but to other multimodal and technological representations as well. We publish work that contributes to the field's emerging methodologies and research agendas. CONTENTS: Guest Editors' Introduction by Gabrielle Isabel Kelenyi, Chad Seader, Alison Turner, Ada Vilageliu-Diaz ARTICLES: African Americans in Ghana: Enacting Literate Acts of Healing from Epistemic and Ontological Harm by Mohammed Sakip Iddrisu Saliendo del Pueblo: Migration, Literacy, and Non-Literacy Practices in a Mixtec Farmworking Community by Guadalupe Remigio Ortega Finding the Lorde in Me: Using Lordean Counterstory to Thwart Bureaucratic Violence in Community-Based Literacy Projects by Teigha VanHester ISSUES IN COMMUNITY LITERACY: Radically Imagining Community Programs: Reflection, Collaboration, and Organizer Toolkits by Erin Green BOOK AND NEW MEDIA REVIEWS: From the Book and New Media Review Editor's Desk by Jessica Shumake, Editor Unsettling Archival Research: Engaging Critical, Communal, and Digital Archives, reviewed by Michael Harker Searching for Literacy: The Social and Intellectual Origins of Literacy Studies reviewed by Jamie D. I. Duncan CODA: Editors' Introduction First Pride Parade in My City by Saurabh Anand Three Poems by Mara Lee Grayson Institutional Departure by Sarah Puett Gratitude by Tracey Bullington "Pros & Cons Panel Presentation 2023, Call for Presenters" by Evan Harris A Meta-Staging of the Initial Investigative Operatics Working Group, With [x number of] Original Cast Members Playing All the Parts by Bethany Ides, Fan Wu, Ora Ferdman, and Zoe Tuck Against Forgetting: Quilt Pieces and Reflection by Susan Naomi Bernstein
