ERIC Number: EJ1385839
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Jun
Pages: 24
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ISSN: ISSN-1086-296X
EISSN: EISSN-1554-8430
Theorizing Literacies as Affective Flows: Attuning to the Otherwise Possibilities of Hip-Hop's "In-the-Red Frequencies"
Dernikos, Bessie P.; Nightengale-Lee, Bianca; Thiel, Jaye Johnson; Lenters, Kimberly; Bailey, Erin
Journal of Literacy Research, v55 n2 p170-193 Jun 2023
In this theoretical and conceptual article, we consider how meaning-making, literacies, identities, power, privilege, and in/equities are entangled with/in non/human sociomaterial force relations. Inspired by Rose, we build theoretically on the philosophical principles of hip-hop--flow, rupture, layering, and sampling. Conceptually, we invite literacy educators to attune to "in-the-red frequencies," or "noisy" political philosophies and practices that Black people have used to create alternative realities to white supremacist patriarchal systems of oppression. Afrodiasporic approaches to mobility and sounding pivot us away from humanist ways of knowing/being/doing/researching literacy and toward more creative, emergent, and "fugitive modes." Ultimately, we argue that theorizing affective literacies via flow--rupture--layering--sampling enables ethical teaching, learning, and research practices that respect multiple perspectives, histories, and truths; account for affect, power, privilege, positioning, and complicity; and highlight "otherwise worlds" not predicated on hegemonic whiteness, anti-Blackness, and sociopolitical violence.
Descriptors: Music, Philosophy, African Americans, Racism, African Culture, Blacks, Power Structure, Political Issues, Social Problems, Psychological Patterns, Human Body, Literacy
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Language: English
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