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Readers of the quilt : essays on being black, female, and literate

Title
Readers of the quilt : essays on being black, female, and literate / [edited by] Joanne Kilgour Dowdy, Kent State University.
Publication
  • Cresskill, NJ : Hampton Press, [2005]
  • ©2005

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Additional Authors
Dowdy, Joanne Kilgour
Description
xii, 213 pages; 24 cm
Series Statement
Understanding education and policy
Uniform Title
Understanding education and policy.
Subject
  • African American women > Education
  • African American women > Race identity
  • Literacy > Social aspects > United States
  • Literacy > Social aspects
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Bildung
  • Chancengleichheit
  • Schwarze Frau
  • United States
  • USA
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Literacy and the Black woman / Sharon Darling -- Black and on welfare : what you don't know about single-parent women / Sandra Golden -- Unearthing hidden literacy : seven lessons I learned in a cotton field / Lillie Gayle Smith -- Voice of our foremothers : celebrating the legacy of African-American women educators : a personal dedication / Sunny-Marie Birney -- Lessons from down under : reflections on meanings of literacy and knowledge from an African-American female growing up in rural Alabama / Bessie House-Soremekun -- Transformative college literacy of literature Black women peer counselors / Robin Wisniewsky -- Black women/Black literature / Christina McVay and Joanne Kilgour Dowdy -- Teachers as leaders in urban education : testimonies of transformation / Joan T. Wynne -- Storytelling and literacy / Wanda J. Franklin and Joanne Kilgour Dowdy -- Women and literacy in Alice Walker's The color purple / E. Yvette Walters -- Dysfunctional literacies of exclusion : an exploration of the burdens of literacy in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous conditions / Mandi Chikombero -- Reel women : Black women and literacy in feature films / Joanne Kilgour Dowdy -- To be Black female and literate : a personal journey in education and alienation / Leonie Smith.
ISBN
  • 1572736089
  • 9781572736085
  • 1572736097
  • 9781572736092
LCCN
  • 2005041915
  • 40011717423
OCLC
  • ocm58536186
  • 58536186
  • SCSB-1367400
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library