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Implementing Collaborative Writing Tasks in Multilingual Classrooms (The Michigan Teaching Multilingual Writers) - Softcover

Li Ph.D, Dr. Mimi

 
9780472039890: Implementing Collaborative Writing Tasks in Multilingual Classrooms (The Michigan Teaching Multilingual Writers)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 047203989X ISBN 13: 9780472039890
Publisher: University of Michigan Press ELT, 2025

Synopsis

2026 Dance Studies Association de la Torre Bueno First Book Award Shortlist Finalist A Beautiful Fight examines the potentials and limits of capoeira Angola to cohere a multiracial community committed to antiracist struggle. Capoeira, a musical fight-game that originated among enslaved Africans in Brazil, holds special significance for Black Brazilian activists as a spiritual and political practice that affirms the value of Black lives, thus countering anti-Black violence sanctioned by the Brazilian state. However, many capoeira groups count more white practitioners than Black, especially groups of the politicized, Afrocentric style capoeira Angola, raising debates about appropriation of Black culture that resonate across the Americas. A Beautiful Fight addresses these tensions. Drawing on ethnographic research with a multiracial capoeira Angola group in Brazil’s Bahian sertão or backlands, Esther Viola Kurtz explores diverse group members’ understandings of capoeira’s spiritual and political meanings and considers how white participation impacts capoeira’s antiracist politics. A Beautiful Fight argues that white practitioners occupying space in capoeira divert attention from Black members’ concerns and reproduce racist and colonialist ideologies, albeit unintentionally. In this way, the book complicates claims that shared music and dance bridge differences and facilitate cross-racial unity, yet Kurtz proposes that capoeira still transmits knowledge and tools that, when used with intention, commitment, and care, can be wielded to collaboratively contest racism and imagine a more just world.

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About the Author

Mimi Li is Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics/TESOL at East Texas A&M University.
Neomy Storch is Associate Professor in ESL and Applied Linguistics (currently Honorary) at the University of Melbourne.

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Publisher
University of Michigan Press ELT
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
047203989X
ISBN 13 
9780472039890
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
160