Readers of the quilt : essays on being black, female, and literate / [edited by] Joanne Kilgour Dowdy.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Dowdy, Joanne Kilgour
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cresskill, NJ : Hampton Press, ©2005.
Series:Understanding education and policy.
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Table of 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.