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<p>Writing as a Black pastor-scholar rooted in the Black Church and the U.S.–Mexico borderlands, I theorize the Black Church as an urban educational infrastructure that built and sustained Black multiliteracies alongside, and in direct tension with, formal schooling. In urban contexts where data capture, digital surveillance, and accountability regimes render Black learning hyper-visible and subject to institutional extraction, dominant literacy systems narrow what counts as knowledge and who is allowed to count as a knower. I develop the framework of <i>fugitive ecclesial literacies</i> to analyze sermon, testimony, and call-and-response as strategies of resistance, refusal, and reframing within Savage and Lynch’s (<CitationRef CitationID="CR30">2024</CitationRef>) tripartite framework. I define relational literacy as the capacity to sustain meaning through mutual recognition and accountability to others, cultivated where institutional recognition is denied. I further theorize the Black Church as an urban data sanctuary, a site where communities govern knowledge through relational trust rather than institutional extraction. This framework extends Black multiliteracies beyond definitions tied to formal schooling and equips urban educators and researchers to design school–community partnerships grounded in consent, repair, and the redistribution of expertise.</p>

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Fugitive Ecclesial Literacies: The Black Church as an Urban Educational Infrastructure

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    2026年7月26日

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  • Charles E. Becknell Jr.

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Writing as a Black pastor-scholar rooted in the Black Church and the U.S.–Mexico borderlands, I theorize the Black Church as an urban educational infrastructure that built and sustained Black multiliteracies alongside, and in direct tension with, formal schooling. In urban contexts where data capture, digital surveillance, and accountability regimes render Black learning hyper-visible and subject to institutional extraction, dominant literacy systems narrow what counts as knowledge and who is allowed to count as a knower. I develop the framework of fugitive ecclesial literacies to analyze sermon, testimony, and call-and-response as strategies of resistance, refusal, and reframing within Savage and Lynch’s (2024) tripartite framework. I define relational literacy as the capacity to sustain meaning through mutual recognition and accountability to others, cultivated where institutional recognition is denied. I further theorize the Black Church as an urban data sanctuary, a site where communities govern knowledge through relational trust rather than institutional extraction. This framework extends Black multiliteracies beyond definitions tied to formal schooling and equips urban educators and researchers to design school–community partnerships grounded in consent, repair, and the redistribution of expertise.