ABSTRACT
The chapter researches the experiences of a diverse group of young Black scholars in an after-school community literacy program ( CLIP). The analytical framework integrates a languaging perspective coupled with the African philosophy of Ubuntu and a communal recognition concept called “Sawubona” in order to understand how the students address whiteness during book club conversations. The authors make visible how languaging constructed power relations, social agency, and social change, in the in-between spaces of the students’ interactions. Through their languaging interactions, the young CLIP scholars challenged mainstream notions of race, which positioned them in problematic ways.
