ABSTRACT

In this chapter, author asks what they can learn from the analyses of movement across different kinds of borders for the work of teaching, learning, and imagining a better world. Various arguments have been proffered for doing so, including important ones about equity. Kids loved B-Club because it felt like a safe space, where fun reigned, in the midst of a community, city, and world filled with real and perceived dangers of many kinds. One should help kids develop bilingual and bicultural flexibility as well as an awareness of power relations so they can more consciously choose either to cross lines or to stay safely behind them. This book explores the construction and enactment of a unique space for kids to come together with young adult college students in an after-school program designed around language, literacy, culture, and having fun.