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Author Dunbar-Odom, Donna.

Title Defying the odds : class and the pursuit of higher literacy / Donna Dunbar-Odom.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 139 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-136) and index.
Contents Situating literacy -- Boundaries and memories literacy narrative as genre -- Identity, class, and higher literacy: theories of literacy, ways of knowing -- Metaphors we write by -- On the bias: literacies, lived, written, and owned -- Reading with pleasure: what Oprah can teach us about literacy sponsorship.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Literacy -- Social aspects -- United States.
Literacy -- Social aspects.
United States.
Social classes -- United States.
Social classes.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Dunbar-Odom, Donna. Defying the odds. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2007 9780791469712 0791469719 (DLC) 2006007113 (OCoLC)64486799
ISBN 9781429471251 (electronic book)
1429471255 (electronic book)
9780791469712 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
0791469719 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780791469729 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
0791469727 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780791480717
0791480712