Urban Literacies

by Kinloch, Valerie; Ball, Arnetha F.; Lee, Carol D.; Allen, Jobeth (AFT)

• ISBN13: 9780807751824
• ISBN10: 0807751820
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-31
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

In this collection of research on issues in urban education, new and emerging scholars of color in the field have authored theoretically rich and practically sound chapters that extend current conversations on the literate lives, academic achievements, and social networking systems of students of color in urban environments during and after school time. The primary focus of this book is to closely and carefully investigate-through rigorous research, various theoretical orientations, and diverse methodologies-meanings of and current concerns with urban education in the lives of children, youth, and adults of color across three intersecting spectrums.

Author Biography

Valerie Kinloch is associate professor in literacy studies in the School of Teaching and Learning at The Ohio State University. Her most recent book is Harlem on Our Minds: Place, Race, and the Literacies of Urban Youth.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
On Critical Urban Education: An Introduction	p. 1
In Consideration of Family and Community Literacies	p. 11
Aprendiendo de Sus Comunidades/Learning from Their Communities: Bilingual Teachers Researching Urban Latino Neighborhoods	p. 15
A Different World: Black Bookstores as Literacy Counterpublics	p. 38
Identity Construction in the Borderlands: The Acosta Family	p. 53
Double Reading: Young Black Scholars Responding to Whiteness in a Community Literacy Program	p. 72
The Buzz On Teaching And Community	p. 91
A Different Kind of Teaching: Culture Circles as Professional Development for Freedom	p. 95
(Re)Framing Teaching in Urban Classrooms: A Poststructural (Re)Reading of Critical Literacy as Curricular and Pedagogical Practice	p. 111
Down for the Ride but Not for the Die: Theatre as Language for Incarcerated Girls	p. 125
Studies on Popular Culture and Forms of Multimodality	p. 143
Writing as a Site of Struggle: Popular Culture, Empowerment, and Politics of (In)Visibility	p. 145
Is It Bigger Than Hip-Hop? Examining the Problems and Potential of Hip-Hop in the Curriculum	p. 160
ôThe Consciousness of the Verbal Artistö: Understanding Vernacular Literacies in Digital and Embodied Spaces	p. 177
Conclusion: Reflections and Insights on Urban Education	p. 195
Afterword: What If…	p. 201
About the Editor and the Contributors	p. 203
Index	p. 207
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