To illustrate this we will read to you some of the connections we have found. Feel free to join us on the choral refrains. We need to consider the ways in which literacy has changed societies. Through these books I was introduced to radical ideas and different realities. My reading life has changed me and others.
Texts are sites where relations of power are constituted, waged and contested.
Both tangible and contextual texts are contested in real and figurative senses. I read and shared Mildred Taylor s The Friendship. The book, set in Mississippi in the 1930 s, shows the relative impunity with which many whites at that time perpetrated emotional and physical violence against African Americans on both societal and individual levels. It is also shows the psychological fortitude, active resistance, and strength of character with which many in the African American community responded. Jr. As their discussion progressed, the girls were in dialogue at times heated, resistant, revisionist, even fearful with the book, the author, their peers and me, and with current social and economic inequities.