Building Literacy Together: How Families, Schools, and Communities Can Raise Children Who Think

This book is a call to reimagine literacy not simply as a set of academic skills, but as the foundation of identity, agency, and participation in a democratic society. Opening with the story of Frederick Douglass and the blue-backed spelling book that first revealed the power of language to an enslaved child, the book traces a central truth that runs across history and into the present: literacy has never been neutral. It has always been bound up with questions of access, power, voice, and ...