Open Mics and Open Minds: Spoken Word Poetry in African Diaspora Participatory Literacy Communities

Harvard Educational Review

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 362-389

  Fisher, Maisha T ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141574328     PISSN: 00178055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.17763/haer.73.3.642q2564m1k90670     Document Type: Review

References (43)

1. Alexander, K. (1998). Foreword: Evolution of a new era in Black words. In K. Salaam (Ed.), 360°: A revolution of Black poets. New Orleans: Black Words.
2. Alim, H. S. (2003, April). You know my steez ("style"): A sociolinguistic study of African American language in educational contexts. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago.
3. Aziz, L., Boyce, A., Kearney, D., Mzube, D., & Watson, D. J. (2000). Pot liquor for writer's block. Claremont, CA: Ubwenge Press.
4. Brown, F. P. (1999). Performing the word: African American poetry as vernacular culture. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
5. Chamberlain, C. (2003, March). Diversity roundtable: Does the notion of "most integrated city" mean equal opportunity? Comstock's Business Magazine, Special Edition.
6. Cushman, E. (1998). The struggle and the tools: Oral and literate strategies in an inner city community. Albany: State University of New York Press.
7. Dyson, A. H. (1997). Writing superheroes: Contemporary childhood, popular culture, and classroom literacy. New York: Teachers College Press.
8. Dyson, A. H. (1999). Coach Bombay's kids learn to write: Children's appropriation of media material for school literacy. Research in the Teaching of English, 33, 367-401.
9. Dyson, A. H. (2003). The brothers and sisters learn to write: Popular literacies in childhood and school cultures. New York: Teachers College Press.
10. Fisher, M. T. (2002, November). Choosing literacy: African Diaspora participatory literacy communities. Paper presented at the annual convention of the National Council of Teachers of English, Atlanta.
11. Glazner, G. M. (2000). Poetry slam: The competitive art of performance poetry. San Francisco: Manic D. Press.
12. Hale, T. (1998). Griots and griottes. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
13. Heath, S. B. (1983). Ways with words: Language, life, and work in communities and classrooms. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press.
14. Heath, S. B., & McLaughlin, M. W. (1993). Identity and inner-city youth: Beyond ethnicity and gender. New York: Teachers College Press.
15. Heller, C. E. (1997). Until we are strong together: Women writers in the Tenderloin. New York: Teachers College Press.
16. Holt, T. (1990). "Knowledge is power": The Black struggle for literacy. In A. A. Lunsford, H. Moglen, & J. Slevin (Eds.), The right to literacy (pp. 91-102). New York: Modern Language Association of America.
17. Hull, G., & Schultz, K. (2002). School's out! Bridging out-of-school literacies with classroom practice. New York: Teachers College Press.
18. Jahn, J. (1990). Muntu: African culture and the western world (M. Grene, Trans.). New York: Grove Press.
19. Lee, C. D. (1991). Big picture talkers/words walking without masters: The instructional implications of ethnic voices for an expanded literacy. Journal of Negro Education, 60, 291-304.
20. Lee, C. D. (1992). Literacy, cultural diversity, and instruction. Education and Urban Society, 24, 279-291.
21. Lee, C. D. (1995). A culturally based cognitive apprenticeship: Teaching African American high school students skills in literary interpretation. Reading Research Quarterly, 30, 608-629.
22. Mahiri, J. (1998). Shooting for excellence: African American and youth culture in new century schools. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English.
23. Mahiri, J. (Ed.). (in press). What they don't learn in school: Literacy in the lives of urban youth. New York: Peter Lang.
24. Mahiri, J., & Sablo Sutton, S. (1996). Writing for their lives: The non-school literacy of California's urban African American youth. Journal of Negro Education, 65, 164-180.
25. Majors, Y. (2002, April). Crossing boundaries: Communities of practice as resources for classroom instruction. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Researcher Association, New Orleans.
26. McHenry, E., & Heath, S. B. (1994). The literate and the literary: African Americans as writers and readers - 1830-1940. Written Communication, 11, 419-444.
27. Mercado, C. (1992). Researching research: A classroom-based student-teacher-researcher collaborative project. In A. Ambert & M. Alvarez (Eds.), Puerto Rican children on the mainland: Interdisciplinary perspectives (pp. 167-192). New York: Garland.
28. Moll, L., & Gonzalez, N. (1994). Lessons from research with language-minority children. Journal of Reading Behavior, 26, 439-456.
29. Moss, B. J. (Ed.). (1994a). Literacy across communities. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
30. Moss, B. J. (Ed.). (1994b). Creating a community: Literacy events in African-American churches. In B. Moss (Ed.), Literacy across communities (pp. 147-178). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press.
31. Neal, L. (1971). The Black arts movement. In A. Gayle (Ed.), The Black aesthetic (pp. 272-290). Garden City, NY: DoubleDay.
32. Peck, W. C., Flower, L., & Higgins, L. (1995). Community literacy. College Composition and Communication, 46, 199-222.
33. Powell, K. (2000). The word movement. In K. Powell (Ed.), Step into a world: A global anthology of the new Black literature (pp. 1-12). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
34. Rose, T. (1994). Black noise: Rap music and Black culture in contemporary America. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press.
35. Sablo Sutton, S. (in press). Spoken word: Performance poetry in the Black community. In J. Mahiri (Ed.), What they don't learn in school: Literacy in the lives of urban youth. New York: Peter Lang.
36. Salaam, K. (1999, March-April). Why spoken word rules. Black Issues Book Review, 1(2), 19-22.
37. Shujaa, M. (1994). Education and schooling: You can have one without the other. In M. Shujaa (Ed.), Too much schooling too little education: A paradox of Black life in White societies (pp. 13-36). Trenton, NJ: African World Press.
38. Smitherman, G. (1999a). White English in blackface or who do I be? In G. Smitherman (Ed.), Talkin' that talk: Language, culture and education in African America (pp. 57-66). London: Routledge.
39. Smitherman, G. (1999b). "How I got ovuh": African world view and Afro-American oral tradition. In G. Smitherman (Ed.), Talkin that talk: Language, culture and education in African America (pp. 199-222). London: Routledge.
40. Tecumseh, S., & Mikell, T. (2002). Summonommo: Words from the ghetto/ancestral wisdom of poetry and prose. Oakland, CA: Authors.
41. Thomas, I. C. (2002). Out of the fire. Oakland, CA: Author.
42. U.S. Census Bureau. (2002). Census 2000 redistricting data (Public Law 94-171). Available online at http://factfinder.census.gov
43. Warren, B., Rosebery, A., & Conant, F. (1989). Chècke Konnen: Science and literacy in language minority classrooms (Report No. 7305). Cambridge, MA: Bolt, Baranek, and Newman.