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Literacy Identity

Literacy Identity is a socioculturally situated construct within literacy studies that denotes the way individuals perceive, position, and enact themselves as readers, writers, and communicators within specific social, historical, and communal contexts, particularly shaped by experiences of power, race, and belonging in African American and community literacy practices.

198

Publications

11.8K

Citations

245

Authors

127

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

25

Variants

Literacy Identities

Parents

Publications

198

Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy

Sarah Lund Skar, Brian Street · Man · 1994 · 905 citations

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Cross-Cultural Approaches to Literacy

Claire Kramsch, Brain V. Street · Modern Language Journal · 1994 · 700 citations

, , +13

Rereading “A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies”

Kevin M. Leander, Gail Boldt · Journal of Literacy Research · 2012 · 475 citations

, , +10

Literacy and Identity: Examining the Metaphors in History and Contemporary Research

Elizabeth Birr Moje, Allan Luke · Reading Research Quarterly · 2009 · 437 citations · Full text

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Literacy and Cultural Identity

Bernardo M. Ferdman · Harvard Educational Review · 1990 · 300 citations

, , +14

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Authors

245

  1. BT
    Bronwyn T. Williams

    University of Louisville, United States

    7 publications · 242 citations

    7

    h-index

  2. LA
    Leigh A. Hall

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States

    4 publications · 249 citations

    4

    h-index

  3. AL
    Allan Luke

    Queensland University of Technology, Australia

    3 publications · 665 citations

    3

    h-index

  4. LT
    Lyn Tett

    University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 120 citations

    3

    h-index

  5. RI
    Roz Ivanič

    Lancaster University, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 319 citations

    3

    h-index

1–5 of 245

Institutions

127

  1. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    6 h-index

    6 publications

    596 citations

  2. Michigan State University

    East Lansing, United States

    5 h-index

    6 publications

    165 citations

  3. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    212 citations

  4. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    4 h-index

    5 publications

    383 citations

  5. University of Louisville

    Louisville, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    183 citations

  6. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    1.1K citations

  7. Simon Fraser University

    Burnaby, Canada

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    636 citations

  8. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Chapel Hill, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    186 citations

1–8 of 127

Venues

  1. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy

    JAAL · 15 publications · 511 citations

    13

    h-index

  2. Journal of Literacy Research

    JLR · 10 publications · 794 citations

    10

    h-index

  3. Reading Research Quarterly

    RRQ · 10 publications · 1.3K citations

    10

    h-index

  4. Reading & Writing Quarterly

    RWQ · 6 publications · 152 citations

    6

    h-index

  5. Research in the Teaching of English

    RTE · 7 publications · 289 citations

    6

    h-index

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