Reading and relevance, reimagined: celebrating the literacy lives of young men of color

Introduction

The term relevance in educational practice

Four dimensions of relevance, 10 years in the making

Young men of color and literacy education

The reader, the world, and empowerment

The study

Book organization

Identity

Identity, identification, and relevance

Identity and relevance: In the young men's words

The young men's interiorities/subjectivities-personal experiences

The young men's collectivities-race, ethnicity, and gender

Identity and disruptive relevance

Spatiality

Place, space, and spatiality

Spatiality and all boys academy: Textual relevance in a space intended for young men of color

Spatiality beyond All Boys Academy: Textual relevance in predominantly white spaces

Spatiality and disruptive relevance

Temporality

Time, temporality, and world-articulation

Textual relevance then, now, and In between

Ideology

Ideology, the world, and textual relevance

Ideology and the young men's literacy lives

Ideology as world-articulation

Reading and relevance, reimagined: A finale and a beginning

Four dimensions of relevance: Intersections and disruptions

Textual relevance as a means of critical mobility

Multiple possibilities for every book: The power of a multidimensional approach to relevance.