Culturally Contested Literacies: America's "Rainbow Underclass" and Urban Schools

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ISBN: 9780415955645 | 0415955645
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 11/15/2007

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Culturally Contested Literacies examines the home and school literacy experiences of children from a uniquely socio-cultural perspective, including vivid, detailed case studies describing the lives and literacy practices of six families.

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Acknowledgments	p. vi
Introduction: America's "Rainbow Underclass" and Inner City Schooling	p. 1
Where the Stories Began: The City and its Schools	p. 27
Being Vietnamese, Becoming Somebody	p. 57
Being Sudanese, Being Black	p. 93
Being White, Being the Majority in the Minority	p. 127
Multicultural Families and Multiliteracies: Tensions, Conformity, and Resistance to Urban Schooling	p. 161
Culturally Contested Literacies and the Education of America's "Rainbow Underclass"	p. 183
Notes	p. 199
References	p. 201
Index	p. 213
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Culturally Contested Literacies: America's "Rainbow Underclass" and Urban Schools

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