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.

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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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