Language Arts & Disciplines / Literacy

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Immigrants, Brokers, and Literacy as Affinity

Immigrants, Brokers, and Literacy as Affinity

A new addition to the Pitt Composition, Literacy and Culture series
Pluriversal Literacies

Pluriversal Literacies

Tools for Perseverance and Livable Futures
Decolonial projects can end up reinforcing dominant modes of thinking by shoehorning understandings of Indigenous and non-Western traditions within Eurocentric frameworks. The pluralization of literacies and the creation of so-called alternative rhetorics accepts that there is a totalizing reality of rhetoric and literacy. This volume seeks to decenter these theories ...
What It Means to Be Literate

What It Means to Be Literate

A Disability Materiality Approach to Literacy after Aphasia
Disability and literacy are often understood as incompatible. Disability is taken to be a sign of illiteracy, and illiteracy to be a sign of disability. These oppositions generate damaging consequences for disabled students (and those labeled as such) who are denied full literacy education and for nonliterate adults who are ...
Literacy as Conversation

Literacy as Conversation

Learning Networks in Urban and Rural Communities
In Literacy as Conversation, the authors tell stories of successful literacy learning outside of schools and inside communities, both within urban neighborhoods of Philadelphia and rural and semi-rural towns of Arkansas. They define literacy not as a basic skill but as a rich, broadly interactive human behavior: the ability to ...
On the End of Privacy

On the End of Privacy

Dissolving Boundaries in a Screen-Centric World
In preparation for this book, and to better understand our screen-based, digital world, Miller only accessed information online for seven years.On the End of Privacy explores how literacy is transformed by online technology that lets us instantly publish anything that we can see or hear. Miller examines the 2010 suicide ...
Resisting Brown

Resisting Brown

Race, Literacy, and Citizenship in the Heart of Virginia
Many localities in America resisted integration in the aftermath of the Brown v. Board of Education rulings (1954, 1955). Virginia’s Prince Edward County stands as perhaps the most extreme. Rather than fund integrated schools, the county’s board of supervisors closed public schools from 1959 until 1964. The only formal education available for ...
South Asian in the Mid-South

South Asian in the Mid-South

Migrations of Literacies
In an age of global anxiety and suspicion, South Asian immigrants juggle multiple cultural and literate traditions in Mid-South America. In this study Iswari P. Pandey looks deeply into this community to track the migration of literacies, showing how different meaning-making practices are adapted and reconfigured for cross-language relations and ...
Writing against Racial Injury

Writing against Racial Injury

The Politics of Asian American Student Rhetoric
Writing against Racial Injury recalls the story of Asian American student rhetoric at the site of language and literacy education in post-1960s California. What emerged in the Asian American movement was a recurrent theme in U.S. history: conflicts over language and literacy difference masked wider racial tensions. Bringing ...
Producing Good Citizens

Producing Good Citizens

Literacy Training in Anxious Times
Recent global security threats, economic instability, and political uncertainty have placed great scrutiny on the requirements for U.S. citizenship. The stipulation of literacy has long been one of these criteria. In Producing Good Citizens, Amy J. Wan examines the historic roots of this phenomenon, looking specifically to the period ...
The Evolution of College English

The Evolution of College English

Literacy Studies from the Puritans to the Postmoderns
Thomas P. Miller defines college English studies as literacy studies and examines how it has evolved in tandem with broader developments in literacy and the literate. He maps out “four corners” of English departments: literature, language studies, teacher education, and writing studies. Miller identifies their development with broader changes in ...
Managing Literacy Mothering America

Managing Literacy Mothering America

Womens Narratives On Reading And Writing
Managing Literacy, Mothering America accomplishes two monumental tasks. It identifies and defines a previously unstudied genre, the domestic literacy narrative, and provides a pioneering cultural history of this genre from the early days of the United States through the turn of the twentieth century.Domestic literacy narratives often feature scenes ...
Language Of Experience

Language Of Experience

Literate Practices And Social Change
The Language of Experience examines the relationship between literacy and change–both personal and social. Gorzelsky studies three cases, two historical and one contemporary, that speak to key issues on the national education agenda. “Struggle” is a community literacy program for urban teens and parents. It encourages them to reflect ...
Practicing Writing

Practicing Writing

The Postwar Discourse of Freshman English
Practicing Writing examines a pivotal era in the history of the most ubiquitous-and possibly most problematic-course in North American colleges and universities: the requireAd first-year writing course generally known as “freshman English.” Thomas Masters's focus is the mid-twentieth century, beginning with the returning waves of World War II veterans ...
Traces Of A Stream

Traces Of A Stream

Literacy and Social Change Among African American Women
Traces of a Stream offers a unique scholarly perspective that merges interests in rhetorical and literacy studies, United States social and political theory, and African American women writers. Focusing on elite nineteenth-century African American women who formed a new class of women well positioned to use language with consequence, Royster ...
Language, Rhythm, and Sound

Language, Rhythm, and Sound

Black Popular Cultures into the Twenty-first Century
Focusing on expressions of popular culture among blacks in Africa, the United States, and the Carribean this collection of multidisciplinary essays takes on subjects long overdue for study. Fifteen essays cover a world of topics, from American girls’ Double Dutch games to protest discourse in Ghana; from Terry McMillan’s ...

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