TY - BOOK AU - Li,Guofang TI - Culturally contested literacies: America's "rainbow underclass" and urban schools SN - 9780415955645 (hb : alk. paper) AV - LC 1099.3 .L5 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - Multicultural education KW - United States KW - Case studies KW - Education, Urban KW - Literacy KW - Social aspects N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-211) and index; Introduction : America's "rainbow underclass" and inner city schooling -- Where the stories began : the city and its schools -- Being Vietnamese, becoming somebody -- Being Sudanese, being Black -- Being white, being the majority in the minority -- Multicultural families and multiliteracies : tensions, conformity, and resistance to urban schooling -- Culturally contested literacies and the education of America's "rainbow underclass" UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0717/2007019500.html ER -