Feel these words
Subtitle: writing in the lives of urban youth
By: Susan Weinstein.
Publisher: State University of New York Press; SUNY Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781438426518; 9781438426525
Subjects: Creative writing (Secondary education) -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies; English language -- Composition and exercises -- Study and teaching (Secondary) -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies; Urban youth -- Education (Secondary) -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies; Youth with social disabilities -- Education (Secondary) -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "I am me but who am I?":  presenting the writers; title: "You never let me speak":  power, language, and learning; title: "Questioning myself and the people around me":  identifications and communality in imaginative writing; title: "You gotta be a writer to get in the game": understanding rap as a literate discourse; title: Pregnancy, pimps, and "clichéd love things": writing through gender and sexuality; title: "My work sparked an interest in someone else": the pleasures of imaginative writing; title: "Book smart, street smart & everything in between": writing, literate identity, and academic achievement; title: "If you can't write you can't succeed": changing attitudes among educators and youth; title: Epilogue: where are they now?; title: Appendix: Oakland Unified School District ebonics resolution.