Kirjahaku

Provides concrete examples of homework mentorship and positive academic interventions among immigrant families.Winner of the 2019 Outstanding Book in Community Writing Award presented by the Coalition for Community Writing Brokering Tareas examines a grassroots literacy mentoring program that connected immigrant parents with English language mentors who helped emerging bilingual children with homework and encouraged positive academic attitudes. Steven Alvarez gives an ethnographic account of literacies practices, language brokering, advocacy, community-building, and mentorship among Mexican-origin families at a neighborhood afterschool program in New York City. Alvarez argues that engaging literacy mentorship across languages can increase parental involvement and community engagement among immigrant families, and offers teachers and researchers possibilities for rethinking their own practices with the communities of their bilingual students.

The Codex Mojaodicus collects three novels-in-verse --"My Sweet Conquistador," "Chaley Way," and "The Pocho Codex" -- all of which mine, mime, record and disgorge the impressions and dissertations of language as it is uttered, stuttered, and felt in a variety of tongues and heads. In these theatrical poems, Alvarez documents a multilingual field, tracing a Xicano genome over and above

McTl n is the sequel to Steven Alvarez's Codex Mojaodicus, a Xicanx mythopoetic dream cyclejourney spiraling into histories, geographies, and langscapes of the Americas. In this novel inverse, protagonist Chaley Chastitellez journeys deep into the underworld of McTl n and intovisions of destinies that prefigure disgorged, decolonial codices of three generations. In McTl n, Chaley reckons with the ghosts of his ancestors and also the toxic masculinity of their 'cheroways. Alvarez assembles layers of artifacts that span the hemisphere, across borders betweengenres, forms, and languages.