Connecting the Literacy Puzzle: Linking the Professional, Personal, and Social Perspectives (Kilgour
	Quantity in Basket:none Code: 978-1-61289-061-6 Price:$28.95 Title: Connecting the Literacy Puzzle Sub-title: Linking the Professional, Personal, and Social Perspectives Editor(s): Joanne Kilgour Dowdy and Sandra Golden Publish Date: December 2011 Pages: 276 Format: Paper
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This volume reveals the stories of women who are Black, biologically and culturally, who have enhanced their agency through the development of various types of literacy which have allowed them to resolve the issues of life, ranging in a variety of areas and written in multiple genres, including academic research reports, biographies, narratives, conversations, local dialect, and poetry. Within this text, the story tellers and subjects, while the majority are Black, are a multiracial group, writing and working within the same frame of references--the Afrocentric Worldview. The chapters reveal of socioeconomic, geopolitical, and historical reality for these women. The book is a testament to the power of literacy beyond its normal conception and understanding. Contents: Links, Eintou Pearl Springer. Introduction, Christina McVay. PART I: LITERACY OF THE ACADEME. Academe’s Gilded Stairway, Diedre L. Badejo. African American Women Achieving Against the Odds in the Academy: Case Studies in Literacy, Marlene Dorsey and Anita Jackson. African American Grandmothers: Special Agents of Academic Achievement, Lillie Gayle Smith. Art Education and Teacher Education, Joanne Kilgour Dowdy and Emily Regas. PART II: LITERACY AND CULTURES. A Cultural Literacy Construct, Sandra Golden. A Moroccan Woman’s Literacy Journey, Latifa Brahimi. My Dance Crucible—The Metamorphosis Dance Company, Nancy Herrara. I Don’t Speak Ebonics, But I Wish I Did: One Instructor’s Story and Call to Activism, Jennifer M. Cunningham. Black Women and Literacy as Portrayed in Children’s Picture Story Books Written by Black Women Authors, Terry Diana Benton. Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Misogyny, Media Literacy and the Rap Music Phenomenon, Lawrence M. Epps. Hearing Another Point of View, Jennifer Dyer Sennette. Survivor, Pearl Eintou Springer. PART III: EDUCATIVE LITERACY. Tomorrow Ain’t Waiting on You: Do It One Time, Lystra Hazarie and Rhonda. A Hairdresser’s Journey, Michelle Cobbin. Literacy and Leadership, What is the Connection? The Story Of Three Women in Senegal, Sonja Fagerberg -Diallo. An Open Letter to Young People, Queen Macoomeh. Addressing the Forms of Things Known and Unknown: The Promise and Puzzle of Sociocultural Perspectives on Literacy, Erik Jacobson. In Recuperation: Revelation of Illiteracy in Trinidad and Tobago: A Women Writing Illiteracy, Melise D. Huggins. Literacy in a West African Context, Wendy Wilson Fall. About the Contributors. Author Index. Subject Index.