Patriann Smith is a distinguished scholar-educator at the University of South Florida whose research emerges at the intersection of race, language, and immigration. She is the author of Black Immigrant Literacies: Intersections of Race, Language, and Culture in the Classroom (2023), co-author of Affirming Black Students' Lives and Literacies: Bearing Witness (2022), and co-founder of the USAID-funded RISE Caribbean Educational Research Center (CERC: 2022).

• Foreword; 1. Introduction: looking through the lens of Black immigrant literacies; 2. Why 'new model minority' youth? Understanding Black immigrants in the United States; 3. Afro-Caribbean languaging, Englishes, and literacies across the Black diaspora: unmasking the fallacy of invented illiteracy; 4. Conceptualizing translanguaging in Black immigrant literacies: multiliteracies, raciolinguistics, language and raciosemiotic architecture; 5. Methodologically examining Black immigrant literacies: a (decolonizing) interpretive analytical design; 6. Translanguaging imaginaries of innocence a holistic portrait of the literacies of Black Caribbean immigrant youth; 7. Reinscribing lost imaginaries of semiolingual innocence: futurizing translanguaging for flourishing; Afterword.

'A métissage between biography and autobiography, poetry and strong poetry, languaging and translanguiging, this book is a bottom-up testimony explicating how a group of Black Caribbean immigrant youth situates themselves in a time and space while questioning the adequacy of that location. It is where language learning is no longer an abstract exercise but a question(ing) of desire and identity mapping and as such, it moves beyond grammar and syntax to semiotics and raciosemiotics.' Awad Ibrahim, Vice-Provost, Equity, Diversity and Inclusive Excellence, University of Ottawa, and the author of Black Immigrants in North America