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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Urgent Need to Build Textual Lineages | |
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| African American Adolescent Males | |
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| Poverty Default | |
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| Relying on Schools | |
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| Exiled in America | |
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| Racial Isolation and Social Dislocation | |
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| African American Males Born in the 1990s | |
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| Music Hath More Than Charms to Soothe | |
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| A Generational Shift | |
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| The Bridge of Opportunities | |
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| Shaping Literacy as a Collaborative Act | |
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| Shaping Collaborative Environments | |
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| Wearing Books Out Together | |
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| Brother and Sister Authors | |
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| Penetrating Texts | |
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| An Institute Planned as a Literacy Collaborative | |
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| Productive Starting Points | |
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| Vital Signs of Literacy Development | |
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| Parental Involvement or Lack Thereof | |
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| Oversimplification and Underestimation | |
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| Squeezing Teaching and Texts | |
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| Productive Starting Points | |
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| Enabling Texts | |
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| Characteristics and Examples of Enabling Texts | |
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| An Historical Look at Enabling Texts | |
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| Parallel Texts for Today | |
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| Fear of and Resistance to Using Enabling Texts | |
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| A False Dichotomy | |
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| Moving Beyond Disabling Texts | |
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| Enabling Texts in the Mid-Twentieth Century | |
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| A Quick Look at Textual Lineages | |
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| The Severing of Texts | |
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| Productive Starting Points for Strengthening Our Educational Ideology | |
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| Choosing, Creating, and Mediating Enabling Texts | |
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| Avoiding Caricatures | |
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| Establishing Platforms for Literacy Development | |
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| Reconciling Differences | |
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| Mediating Texts Across Culture and Gender | |
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| Productive Starting Points | |
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| Poetic Broadsides | |
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| In Search of Poetic Broadsides | |
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| Using Poetic Broadsides to Activate the Writer's Minds | |
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| Poetry and Humanity | |
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| Productive Starting Points | |
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| Short Stories | |
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| Resurrecting the Short Story | |
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| Canvassing the Historical Landscape | |
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| Getting African American Adolescent Males to Read and Write Short Stories | |
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| Becoming Connected to Short Stories | |
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| Productive Starting Points | |
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| Armed for Battle | |
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| Being in the World Without | |
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| Engaging African American Adolescent Male Voices | |
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| So Where's the List? | |
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| Sample Lesson with Explicit Instruction and Text | |
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| Forty Engaging Texts for African American Adolescent Males | |
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| Texts Mentioned in This Book | |
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| Ten Enabling Texts with Starters and Essential Questions | |
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| Study Guide Questions | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |