Brian Street and African American Feminist Practices: Two Histories,Texts

In “Brian Street and AfricanAmerican Feminist Practices: Two Histories, Two Texts” Faye Spencer Maor re-interprets Francis(Fanny) Jackson Coppin’s and Hallie Quinn Brown’s philosophies of literacy instructions as Blackfeminist ideological literacy, one that draws on their experiences and the experiences of the Blackcommunity to valorize and respect the languages and literacy practices of Black students in schools.Maor considers what we can learn from Coppin and Brown to transform literacy through a Blackfeminist lens that promotes inclusive, equitable, and socially just literacy education. This worksuggests that rather than assimilating racially marginalized students an inclusive academic literaciesaccepts students’ linguistic practices as valuable and well-suited for knowledge construction andknowledge sharing across disciplines. Pedagogies that resist linguistic racism can create pathwaystoward consciously revising policies of access to academic literacies