Chapter 2 Constructing Invisibility : The Discursive Erasure of a Black Immigrant Learner in South Africa

This chapter analyzes some of the discursive interactions through which a 13-year-old francophone Cameroonian student attempts to construct new social and academic identities. It builds on research on the situated co-construction of micro-interactional identities and macro-social categories such as...

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Main Author: Kerfoot, Caroline (auth)
Other Authors: Tatah, Gwendoline (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Taylor & Francis 2017
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