Literacy and Racial Justice The Politics of Learning after Brown V. Board of Education

Name: Literacy and Racial Justice The Politics of Learning after Brown V. Board of Education
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ISBN: 9780809325252

ISBN-10: 080932525X

ISBN-13: 9780809325252

Edition: 3rd 2003

Authors: Catherine Jean Prendergast, Gloria Ladson-Billings

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In anticipation of the fiftieth anniversary of the landmarkBrown v.Board of Educationdecision, Catherine Prendergast draws on a combination of insights from legal studies and literacy studies to interrogate contemporary multicultural literacy initiatives, thus providing a sound historical basis that informs current debates over affirmative action, school vouchers, reparations, and high-stakes standardized testing.nbsp; nbsp; As a result ofBrownand subsequent crucial civil rights court cases, literacy and racial justice are firmly enmeshed in the American imagination—so much so that it is difficult to discuss one without referencing the other. Breaking with the accepted wisdom that…

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List price: $39.00
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 9/30/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Gloria Ladson-Billings was a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She worked for a decade as a teacher and administrator in the Philadelphia Public Schools. She is the author of The Dreamkeepers (Jossey-Bass, 1997).



Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Tangled History of Literacy and Racial Justice



The Economy of Literacy: How the Supreme Court Stalled the Civil Rights Movement



Bakke's Legacy: The New Rhetoric of Racial Justice



Desegregation Comes to the Piedmont: Locating Ways with Words



Give Me Your Literate: Literacy and the American Dream



Literacy and Racial Justice in Practice: High School X


Conclusion: The Politics of Learning after Brown


Notes


References


Index