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9780415955645

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

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415955645

  • ISBN10:

    0415955645

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2007-11-15
  • Publisher: Routledge

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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Guofang Li is Associate Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. vi
Introduction: America's "Rainbow Underclass" and Inner City Schoolingp. 1
Where the Stories Began: The City and its Schoolsp. 27
Being Vietnamese, Becoming Somebodyp. 57
Being Sudanese, Being Blackp. 93
Being White, Being the Majority in the Minorityp. 127
Multicultural Families and Multiliteracies: Tensions, Conformity, and Resistance to Urban Schoolingp. 161
Culturally Contested Literacies and the Education of America's "Rainbow Underclass"p. 183
Notesp. 199
Referencesp. 201
Indexp. 213
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