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Jasmine Mans

Jasmine Mans is a Black American writer and artist from Newark, New Jersey. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison with a B.A. in African American Studies. Her debut poetry collection, Black Girl, Call Home, was published to critical and commercial success in 2021, going on to win a Stonewall Award. Mans is the owner and CEO of Buy Weed From Women, a cannabis-adjacent product design company in New Jersey.
Black Girl, Call Home

Books

Black Girl, Call Home

2024 Middle and High School Collections

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PRH Education High School Collections

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PRH Education Translanguaging Collections

Translanguaging is a communicative practice of bilinguals and multilinguals, that is, it is a practice whereby bilinguals and multilinguals use their entire linguistic repertoire to communicate and make meaning (García, 2009; García, Ibarra Johnson, & Seltzer, 2017)   It is through that lens that we have partnered with teacher educators and bilingual education experts, Drs.

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