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Defying the odds : class and the pursuit of higher literacy / Donna Dunbar-Odom.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dunbar-Odom, Donna.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Literacy--Social aspects--United States.
- Literacy.
- Social classes--United States.
- Social classes.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (149 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines why some working-class students pursue higher literacy while others don't.
- Contents:
- Situating literacy
- Boundaries and memories literacy narrative as genre
- Identity, class, and higher literacy: theories of literacy, ways of knowing
- Metaphors we write by
- On the bias: literacies, lived, written, and owned
- Reading with pleasure: what Oprah can teach us about literacy sponsorship.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-136) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780791480717
- 0791480712
- 9781429471251
- 1429471255
- OCLC:
- 137539938
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