Select Peer-Reviewed Publications

**Formerly known as "Omogun". If you'd like to read a copy and/or need access, email me lafolau@uw.edu).

Afolalu, L. (2024). I’m Still Nigerian: Navigating Race Through Digital Literacies. Journal of Literacy Research, 56(3). 

Afolalu, L. (2024). Opening Space to Participate: One Nigerian Girl’s Use of Visual Arts to Navigate School-Based Linguistic Discrimination. In Watson, VM., Knight-Manuel, M. & Smith, P. (Eds.), Educating African Immigrant Youth: Schooling and Civic Engagement in K-12 Schools, Teachers College Press. 

Omogun, L. & Skerrett, A. (2021). From Haiti to Detroit Through Black Immigrant Languages and Literacies. Journal of Literacy Research, 53(3), 406-429.

Omogun, L. (2021). Counterstories: Reimagining Youth in Multiethnic Short Story Anthologies [Review of the book Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America edited by I. Zoboi]. Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 64 (5).

Johnston, K., Omogun, L. & Lee, C. (2021). From New York City to the World: Examining Critical Global Literacies in an English Language Arts Classroom. Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 35(2), 215-230.

Skerrett, A. & Omogun, L. (2020). When Racial, Transnational, and Immigrant Identities and Literacies Meet: Black Youth of Caribbean Origin Speak. Teachers College Record, 122 (13).

Omogun, L. (2018). Immigrant Student Identities In Literacy Spaces. Texas Education Review, 6 (2), 70-81.

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