In Search of Our Tiny Gardens

Adolescent Girl of Color Multiliteracies as Creative Praxis

Bibliographic Data

ID15016994
AuthorsGrace D Player (0000-0002-2372-4971, University of Connecticut Storrs Connecticut USA, corresponding author), Autumn A Griffin (0000-0003-0177-801X, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Charlotte North Carolina USA)
Year2025
Volume68
Issue6
Pages727-736
Publication date2025-05-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1081-3004 • E-ISSN: 1936-2706
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/jaal.70006
OpenAlexW4409147164
LanguageEN
References cited28

This piece uses Alice Walker's In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens as a conceptual framework to highlight the unique ways Girls and Femmes of Color (GFOC) create beauty and life amidst a backdrop of devastating oppression. In doing so, we emphasize the brilliance and beauty of GFOC and their multiliterate practices while also challenging the notion of “art for art's sake.” This work will narrate our material and metaphorical relationship to their mothers' gardens, highlight literature and theory exemplifying GFOC multiliterate “gardening,” and provides vignettes from our research collaboratives with GFOC to highlight their creative and transformative praxis born of their raced‐gendered epistemologies

Art · Developmental psychology · Epistemology · Girl · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Praxis · Sociology · Visual arts · Child Development and Digital Technology · Digital Games and Media · Literacy, Media, and Education · Psychology

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