Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book focuses specifically on the mobilities of three students: Nadif, Katherine, and James. It draws upon a range of data types collected while participating in these students' patterns of movement in and across scenes of literacy, conducting interviews in single sites and on the move, and analyzing their print-based and digital texts to represent intersecting and diverging movements across scenes of literacy. After school Nadif and James meet again at a city bus stop, where a northbound bus takes Nadif to his dual enrollment Pan-African Studies course at a research university, and a southbound bus takes James back to his neighborhood and part-time job as a grocery store clerk. However, Nadif finds his own literate, linguistic, and discursive adaptations rewarding in ways that James and Katherine do not.