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Open Mics and Open Minds: Spoken Word Poetry in African Diaspora Participatory Literacy Communities.
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Fisher, Maisha T. – Harvard Educational Review, 2003
An ethnographic study examined oral poetry venues in black communities in Oakland and Sacramento as African Diaspora participatory literacy communities. These literary centers in out-of-school contexts served as sites for the development of cultural identity and the practice of multiple literacies. (Contains 43 references.) (SK)
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Culture, Ethnography, Oral Tradition
The Power of Call, the Necessity of Response: African World Feminist Voices as Catalysts for Educational Change and Social Empowerment.
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Dillard, Cynthia B. – Initiatives, 1994
Sets forth three calls to education: (1) "Education begins when people are seeking to be whole"; (2) "Education must use memory and her/history as crucial sites of resistance"; (3) "Education must serve to name and to voice." Various strategies for educational change and social empowerment are given. (BF)
Descriptors: African Culture, African Literature, Attitude Change, Black Culture
The New Nomads: Art Life, and Lore of Migrant Workers in New York State.
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Twining, Mary Arnold, Ed. – New York Folklore: The Journal of the New York Folklore Society, 1987
Migrant farm workers are the concern and theme of this special serial issue. Migrant farm workers arrange much of their social and economic life around seasonal changes as they follow jobs up the eastern migrant stream to its northenmost part in New York state, then south to Florida. The education, health, and folk arts program at the Board of…
Descriptors: Art Education, Black Culture, Community Centers, Community Education