Literacy as a civil right : reclaiming social justice in literacy teaching and learning / Stuart Greene, editor. - New York : Peter Lang, c2008. - vi, 199 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Counterpoints, v. 316 1058-1634 ; . - Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; v. 316. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Still-black @stanford.edu: a story of black life in the academy / Gloria Ladson-Billings -- Education policy, race, and neoliberal urbanism / Pauline Lipman -- "Even sweet, gentle Larry?" the continuing significance of race in education / Amada E. Lewis -- For what it's worth: civil rights and the price of literacy / Bob Fecho, Sarah Skinner -- The wages of whiteness? rethinking economic metaphors for whiteness: literacy and life goals in an all-white suburban high school / Jennifer Seibel Trainer -- "Taming the beast": race, discource, and identity in a middle school classroom / Adrienne Dixson -- Revisiting playing in the dark: the hidden games of racialization in literacy studies and school reform / Carol D. Lee -- Language and literacies as civil rights / Kris Gutierrez.

9780820488684 (pb : alk. paper) 0820488682 (pb : alk. paper)

2007000756


Literacy--Social aspects--United States.
Minorities--Education--United States.
Racism in education--United States.

LC 151 / .L4813 2008