COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL 16.1 (Fall 2021) | The journal understands 'community literacy' as the domain for literacy work that exists outside of mainstream educational and work institutions. It can be found in programs devoted to adult education, early childhood education, reading initiatives, lifelong learning, workplace literacy, or work with marginalized populations, but it can also be found in more informal, ad hoc projects. For COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL, literacy is defined as the realm where attention is paid not just to content or to knowledge but to the symbolic means by which it is represented and used. Thus, literacy makes reference not just to letters and to text but to other multimodal and technological representations as well. We publish work that contributes to the field’s emerging methodologies and research agendas. CONTENTS: Special Issue: Hiphop Literacies and Critical Social Justice Possibilities, Guest Editor: Elaine Richardson | Editor’s Introduction Critical Social Justice Possibilities in Hiphop Literacies: An Introduction by Elaine Richardson with Steve Lessner | ARTICLES: ’She Ugly’: Black Girls, Women in Hiphop and Activism-Hiphop Feminist Literacies Perspectives Elaine Richardson aka Dr. E | Higher Hussle: Nipsey’s Post Hip Hop Literacies by Marquese McFerguson and Aisha Durham | Free Your Mind and Your Practice Will Follow: Exploring Hip-Hop Habits of Mind as a Practice of Educational Freedom by Toby S. Jenkins 'An Art of Truth in Things': Confronting Hiphop Illiteracies in Writing Classrooms at Predominantly White Colleges and Universities by Tessa Brown | BOOK AND NEW MEDIA REVIEWS: From the Book and New Media Review Editor’s Desk by Jessica Shumake, Editor | Literacy as Conversation: Learning Networks in Urban and Rural Communities by Eli Goldblatt and David A. Jolliffe Reviewed by Rachel E.H. Edwards | Family Literacies: Shared Reading with Young Children by Rachael Levy and Mel Hall Reviewed by Megen Farrow Boyett | Transnational Feminist Itineraries: Situating Theory and Activist Practice edited by Ashwini Tambe and Millie Thayer Reviewed by Curtis J. Jewell | Words No Bars Can Hold: Literacy Learning in Prison by Deborah Appleman Reviewed by Walter Lucken IV | Queer Literacies: Discourses and Discontents by Mark McBeth Reviewed by Mary F. McGinnis Literacy Heroines: Women and the Written Word by Alice S. Horning Reviewed by Andrea McCrary
