Literacies of Refuge: “Pidiendo Posada” as Ritual of Justice
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Title
Literacies of Refuge: “Pidiendo Posada” as Ritual of Justice
Abstract/Description
This article explores how a secondary ethnic studies course leveraged immigrant families? literacies rooted in the Mexican spiritual ritual of Las Posadas for in-school literacy instruction and to engage in community-responsive grassroots processions as social protest. Using ethnographic and participatory design research, the authors--one a university researcher and the other an ethnic studies teacher--examine the literacy practices of a long-standing immigrant community-classroom partnership that unites day laborers, families, students, and teachers in the name of justice and refuge. Using photographs, interviews, students? literacy artifacts, focus groups, and field notes, this study asks, (a) What do literacies look like in an ethnic studies course that designed learning around local community knowledge and sanctuary? (b) How do students respond to such curricular design? This study contributes ethnographic knowledge on school-based participatory research projects that build on the intergenerational literacies, sociopolitical awareness, and social movements of Latinx immigrant families.
Author/creator
Date
In publication
Volume
52
Issue
1
Pages
32-54
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Empirical
Open access/full-text available
No
Peer reviewed
No
ISSN
1086-296X
Citation
de los Ríos, C. V., & Molina, A. (2020). Literacies of Refuge: “Pidiendo Posada” as Ritual of Justice. Journal of Literacy Research, 52(1), 32–54. https://doi.org/10.1177/1086296X19897840
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