MisReading America

<em>MisReading America </em>presents original research on and conversation about reading formations in American communities of color using the phenomenon of the reading of scriptures--''scripturalizing''--as an analytical wedge. Scriptures here are understood as shorthand for complex social phenomena <br>practices and dynamics. The authors take up scripturalizing as a window onto the self-understandings politics practices and orientations of marginalized communities. These communities have in common the context that is the United States with the challenges it holds for all regarding: pressure<br>to conform to conventional-canonical forms of communication representation and embodiment (mimicry); opportunities to speak back to and confront and overturn conventionality (interruptions); and the need to experience ongoing meaningful and complex relationships (reorientation) to the centering<br>politics practices and myths that define ''America.''<br>