The Emergence of African American Literacy Traditions
Subtitle: Family and Community Efforts in the Nineteenth Century
Publisher: Praeger Publishers; Praeger
Published: October 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780897897990
Subjects: Literacy; Students & Student Life; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Lifest; American - General; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; History; American - African American & Black; Literary Criticism & Collections / American; United States; 19th century; African Americans; Books and reading; Education
First sentence: African American families and communities have significant literacy traditions (Durkin, 1974-1975; Heath, 1983; Taylor &amp; Dorsey-Gaines, 1988).