Literacy in American Lives / Edition 1

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"Literacy in American Lives traces the changing conditions of literacy learning as they were felt in the lives of ordinary Americans born between 1895 and 1985. The book demonstrates what sharply rising standards for literacy have meant to successive generations of Americans and how - as students, workers, parents, and citizens - they have responded to rapid changes in the meaning and methods of literacy learning in their society."--BOOK JACKET.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780521003063
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publication date: 5/28/2001
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 272
  • Sales rank: 760,666
  • Product dimensions: 5.98 (w) x 8.98 (h) x 0.63 (d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Pursuit of Literacy 1
1 Literacy, Opportunity, and Economic Change 25
2 Literacy and Illiteracy in Documentary America 47
3 Accumulating Literacy: How Four Generations of One American Family Learned to Write 73
4 "The Power of It": Sponsors of Literacy in African American Lives 105
5 The Sacred and the Profane: Reading versus Writing in Popular Memory 146
6 The Means of Production: Literacy and Stratification at the Twenty-First Century 187
Conclusion: Literacy in American Lives 187
Appendix: Interview Script 208
Notes 211
Bibliography 235
Index 249
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