Civic Compositional Literacies of Indonesian American Girlhood
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| Title: | Civic Compositional Literacies of Indonesian American Girlhood |
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| Language: | English |
| Authors: | Ankhi G. Thakurta (ORCID |
| Source: | Journal of Literacy Research. 2026 58(1):31-55. |
| Availability: | SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: https://sagepub.com |
| Peer Reviewed: | Y |
| Page Count: | 25 |
| Publication Date: | 2026 |
| Document Type: | Journal Articles Reports - Research |
| Descriptors: | Asian American Students, Females, Critical Literacy, Civics, Multiple Literacies, Self Concept, Literacy Education, Feminism, Intersectionality, Student Attitudes |
| Geographic Terms: | Indonesia |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1086296X261438491 |
| ISSN: | 1086-296X 1554-8430 |
| Abstract: | This paper examines how, in a virtual critical literacy community, Indonesian American girls took up invitations for civic composing. While these young women face intersecting barriers in the White supremacist, heteropatriarchal, and anti-Asian public sphere, scant research has considered how they use composing as a tool to navigate those oppressions in critical literacy spaces. This paper thus foregrounds three focal girls' "civic compositional literacies." Stemming from the youths' civic identity formation processes as intersectionally situated diasporic actors, these were composing practices and textual creations through which they addressed democratic inequities in their (trans)national lifeworlds. Discussing two findings pertaining to youths' composing, the paper deepens conceptions of Indonesian American girls' civic compositional literacies as well as how critical literacy education can nurture them. It also builds knowledge of Asian American girls' civic compositional literacies as the situated, cross-border forms of theorization and action through which these youth are reshaping public life. |
| Abstractor: | As Provided |
| Entry Date: | 2026 |
| Accession Number: | EJ1504328 |
| Database: | ERIC |
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