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Jamila Lyiscott

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Jamila Lyiscott is an American scholar and writer. She is assistant professor of social justice education and co-founder of the Center of Racial Justice and Youth Engaged Research at University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1]

Early life and education

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Lyiscott's parents are from Trinidad and she grew up in the United States, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City.[2] She has an MA in Black literature from Hunter College (2010) and a PhD from Teachers College, Columbia University (2015).[1] Her MA thesis was "False positive freedom"[3] and her doctoral thesis was "How Broken English Made Me Whole: Exploring Race, New Literacies, and Social Justice Within a Youth Participatory Action Research Framework".[4]

Career

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Lyiscott gave a TED talk in 2014, "3 ways to speak English", about her experience of being disrespected as a speaker of Trinidadian and Black American English.[2] This talk has been viewed more than 5 million times.[5] She gave TEDx talk "Why English Class is Silencing Students of Color" in 2018.[6]

She is an editor-in-chief of the journal Equity & Excellence in Education.[7]

In April 2022 she was Michael Rosen's guest on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth.[8]

Selected publications

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  • Lyiscott, Jamila (2019). Black appetite, white food : issues of race, voice, and justice within and beyond the classroom. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781138480667.[9]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Jamila Lyiscott". UMass Amherst College of Education. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  2. ^ a b Raz, Guy (14 November 2014). "Jamila Lyiscott: What Does It Mean To Be 'Articulate'?". NPR.org. Retrieved 14 April 2022. Transcript of radio broadcast
  3. ^ Catalog record for "False Positive Freedom". WorldCat. OCLC 703725478. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  4. ^ Catalog record for "Broken English ...". WorldCat. 2015. OCLC 919244848. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  5. ^ Lyiscott, Jamila (February 2014). "3 ways to speak English". TED. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  6. ^ Lyiscott, Jamila (April 2018). "Why English Class is Silencing Students of Color". TED. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  7. ^ "Equity & Excellence in Education Editorial Board". www.tandfonline.com. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  8. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth, 3 Ways to Speak English". BBC. April 2022. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
  9. ^ Ferlazzo, Larry (22 July 2019). "Author Interview: 'Black Appetite. White Food.'". Education Week. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
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