Culturally contested literacies
Subtitle: America's rainbow underclass and urban schools
By: by Guofang Li.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415955645; 9780415955652
Subjects: Multicultural education -- United States -- Case studies; Education, Urban -- United States -- Case studies; Literacy -- Social aspects -- United States -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: America's "rainbow underclass" and inner city schooling; title: Where the stories began : the city and the families; title: Being Vietnamese, becoming somebody; title: Being Sudanese, being Black; title: Being white, being the majority in the minority; title: Multicultural families and multiliteracies:; title: Tensions, conformity, and resistance to urban schooling; title: Culturally contested literacies and the education of America's "rainbow underclass".