Culturally Contested Literacies: America's "Rainbow Underclass" and Urban Schools

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Culturally Contested Literacies examines the home and school literacy experiences of children from a uniquely socio-cultural perspective, including vivid, detailed case studies describing the lives and literacy practices of six families.

'Culturally Contested Literacies' is a vivid ethnographic account of the everyday cross-cultural living and schooling experiences of six culturally-diverse families’ in urban America, paying particular attention to the ways in which they learn about literacies and their meanings in relation to schools, communities, and other ethnic groups. It illustrates how culturally embedded literacies in families are practiced, negotiated, and contested in the very fabric of their urban living and schooling.
Different from prior research that either essentializes or fragments various social categories, this book examines not only the rich complexity within each family as they make sense of their daily relations in terms of race, ethnicity, class, and gender, but also the productions of such relations across cultural groups and within the context of the larger socio-political and socio-economic formations. By presenting a realistic picture of the varying ways that different racial groups in urban America might encounter schooling, Guofang Li argues that urban education must be understood in relation to; not only the individual’s cultural and familial milieu, but also the interactive context between the individual and the more powerful cultural sites such as schools.

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Chapter 1: Introduction
America's "Rainbow Underclass" and Inner City Schooling
Chapter 2: Where the Stories Began: The City and the Families
Chapter 3: Being Vietnamese, Becoming Somebody
Chapter 4: Being Sudanese, Being Black
Chapter 5: Being White, Being the Majority in the Minority
Chapter 6: Multicultural Families and Multiliteracies:
Tensions, Conformity, and Resistance to Urban Schooling
Chapter 7: Culturally Contested Literacies
and the Education of America's "Rainbow Underclass"
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