Jamila Lyiscott
{{Short description|American social justice scholar and poet}}
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.{{cite web |title=Jamila Lyiscott |url=https://www.umass.edu/education/people/jamila-lyiscott |website=UMass Amherst College of Education |access-date=14 April 2022 |language=en}}
Early life and education
Lyiscott's parents are from Trinidad and she grew up in the United States, in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City.{{cite web |last1=Raz |first1=Guy |title=Jamila Lyiscott: What Does It Mean To Be 'Articulate'? |url=https://www.npr.org/transcripts/362372282?t=1649955227500 |website=NPR.org |access-date=14 April 2022 |language=en |date=14 November 2014}} Transcript of radio broadcast She has an MA in Black literature from Hunter College (2010) and a PhD from Teachers College, Columbia University (2015). Her MA thesis was "False positive freedom"{{cite book |title=Catalog record for "False Positive Freedom" |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/703725478 |publisher=WorldCat | oclc=703725478 |access-date=14 April 2022}} 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".{{cite book |last1= |first1= |title=Catalog record for "Broken English ..." |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/919244848 |publisher=WorldCat |access-date=14 April 2022 |language=English |date=2015|oclc= 919244848}}
Career
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. This talk has been viewed more than 5 million times.{{cite web |last1=Lyiscott |first1=Jamila |title=3 ways to speak English |url=https://www.ted.com/talks/jamila_lyiscott_3_ways_to_speak_english?language=en |publisher=TED |access-date=14 April 2022 |date=February 2014}} She gave TEDx talk "Why English Class is Silencing Students of Color" in 2018.{{cite web |last1=Lyiscott |first1=Jamila |title=Why English Class is Silencing Students of Color |url=https://www.ted.com/talks/jamila_lyiscott_why_english_class_is_silencing_students_of_color |publisher=TED |access-date=14 April 2022 |date=April 2018}}
She is an editor-in-chief of the journal Equity & Excellence in Education.{{cite web |title=Equity & Excellence in Education Editorial Board |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=ueee20 |website=www.tandfonline.com |access-date=14 April 2022}}
In April 2022 she was Michael Rosen's guest on an episode of BBC Radio 4's Word of Mouth.{{cite web |title=BBC Radio 4 - Word of Mouth, 3 Ways to Speak English |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001687j |website=BBC |access-date=14 April 2022 |date=April 2022}}
Selected publications
- {{cite book |last1=Lyiscott |first1=Jamila |title=Black appetite, white food : issues of race, voice, and justice within and beyond the classroom |date=2019 |publisher=Routledge |location=New York |isbn=9781138480667}}{{cite news |last1=Ferlazzo |first1=Larry |title=Author Interview: 'Black Appetite. White Food.' |url=https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-author-interview-black-appetite-white-food/2019/07 |access-date=14 April 2022 |work=Education Week |date=22 July 2019 |language=en}}
References
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External links
- {{official website|https://jamilalyiscott.com/}}
- [https://www.umass.edu/education/people/jamila-lyiscott University profile page]
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Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:People from Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Category:American people of Trinidad and Tobago descent
Category:Hunter College alumni
Category:Teachers College, Columbia University alumni