Tweet-a-Read: Kirkland’s A Search Past Silence–The Literacy of Young Black Men

Sometimes while I am reading, I am so struck by the ideas and the prose that I sheepishly begin live-tweeting. On even rarer occasions, when the text is one I can’t get out of my mind, I collect the tweets and recommend the text to you. This time it was David Kirkland‘s A Search Past Silence: The Literacy of Young Black Men. Highly recommended.

I'll be live-tweeting-reading @davidekirkland's A Search Past Silence:The Literacy of Young Black Men w/ #pastsilence http://t.co/obxJIcqMSs

— anna smith (@anna_phd) August 24, 2013

Preface: "The book that you are reading is not the book I set out to write…I scrapped both manuscripts because…" #pastsilence +

— anna smith (@anna_phd) August 24, 2013

"…they lacked a truth behind the story of literacy in Black male lives, that he is constantly fragile though hard…" #pastsilence +

— anna smith (@anna_phd) August 24, 2013

"…reading and writing (in) a world where death is a constant and elastic participant." That's how you do a preface folks. #pastsilence –

— anna smith (@anna_phd) August 24, 2013

Someone tell me more about "ontologies of identities," please. #pastsilence

— anna smith (@anna_phd) August 24, 2013

@meenoorami Thanks. So, what makes an entity distinct and thus an identifiable entity? Something like that?

— anna smith (@anna_phd) August 24, 2013

@meenoorami gracias!

— anna smith (@anna_phd) August 24, 2013

Good new school year ? from @davidekirkland in #pastsilence: "How can teachers excite those potentials within Black men…" [& all youth] +

— anna smith (@anna_phd) August 24, 2013

…to release the vast energies of their #literacies without first understanding them&their ways with words?" @davidekirkland #pastsilence –

— anna smith (@anna_phd) August 24, 2013

Reading @davidekirkland's #pastsilence from the beginning, I am starting to better understand his advice to me as a researcher… 1/2

— anna smith (@anna_phd) August 24, 2013

…to locate #literacies in the talents of the young men w/ whom I researched the development of writing practices. #wisdom #pastsilence 2/2

— anna smith (@anna_phd) August 24, 2013

In #pastsilence @davidekirkland frames #literacies as "artifact of humanity," result of "human drives…pleasure,play,curiosity,creativity."

— anna smith (@anna_phd) August 24, 2013

I think it fitting to go from @eastharlemcafe reading #pastsilence to mi barrio's celebration of music & mural! pic.twitter.com/3r3j1KBDXg

— anna smith (@anna_phd) August 24, 2013

"The study of #literacies…means to search #pastsilence, to listen to behavior of words as they perform meaning in people's lives." #beauty

— anna smith (@anna_phd) August 25, 2013

critiques treatment of rap as"romanticizing the hip-hop escapade as universal narrative where modern Black male stories reside" #pastsilence

— anna smith (@anna_phd) September 9, 2013

Read Chapter 9 "The Syntax of Tears" in @davidekirkland's book #PastSilence. #justsaying #pain #ink #tearsandtats

— anna smith (@anna_phd) September 9, 2013

Spent past couple of hrs reading more of @davidekirkland's book #PastSilence. David, I can witness why it wouldn't be written any other way.

— anna smith (@anna_phd) September 9, 2013

@writerswriting Thank you for spending time with my book.

— David E. Kirkland (@davidekirkland) September 9, 2013

Here’s the Storified version:
http://storify.com/writerswriting/a-search-pastsilence

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