Title: Harlem on our minds
Subtitle: place, race, and the literacies of urban youth
First published: 2010
Description: "In her new book, Valerie Kinloch investigates how the lives and literacies of youth in New York City's historic Harlem are affected by public attempts to gentrify the community. Kinloch draws connections between race, place, and students' literate identity through collaborative interviews between youth, teachers, longtime black residents, and their new white neighbors. Harlem on Our Minds is a participatory action narrative that makes emerging theories of social ecology real for the high-school English classroom. Vividly drawn lessons show how teachers can engage urban youth in school-based literacy, by linking canonical text, particularly of the Harlem renaissance, to current events."--Jacket.
Subjects: Case studies, Social conditions, Urban youth, Gentrification, Blacks, Social aspects of Literacy, Race identity, Education, Literacy, African americans, race identity, African american youth, Youth, Social aspects, Black people
Places: New York (State), New York, Harlem (New York, N.Y.)
Time periods: 21st century
LC classification: LC153.N48 K56 2010