African Scripts, Graphic Practices, and Contexts of Learning and Use

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Abstract This chapter briefly reviews some of the transatlantic resources that may inform African American vernacular practices and interact with conventional literacy. It also lays groundwork for several case studies in later chapters. Resources, as I use the term, include African writing and graphic systems, individual signs and sign complexes (see chapter 4), remnants of Arabic literacy and Muslim magic, functions and contexts of use and learning, and ideologies of inscription. Assessing the relevance of resources involves examining both the geographic distribution of sign systems-and people who use/d them-in West and Central Africa and the diaspora, and the recurrence of certain configurations of signs, functions, and contexts of acquisition and use. The claim that a “resource” has been “used” depends on configurations, not mere resemblances.

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