Literacy in American Lives

Name: Literacy in American Lives
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ISBN: 9780521003063

ISBN-10: 0521003067

ISBN-13: 9780521003063

Edition: 2001

Authors: Deborah Brandt

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This work traces the changing conditions of literacy learning over the past century as they were felt in the lives of Americans born between 1895 and 1985. The book shows what rising standards have meant to successive generations of Americans.

Book details

List price: $62.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/28/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 1.166
Language: English

Deborah Brandt is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.



Introduction: the pursuit of liberty



Literacy, opportunity and economic change



Literacy and illiteracy in documentary America



Accumulating literacy: how four generations of one American family learned to write



'The power of it': sponsors of literacy in African American lives



The sacred and the profane: reading vs. writing in popular memory



The means of production: literacy and stratification at the 21st century


Conclusion