Multicultural Literature and Literacies

Suzanne M. Miller is Assistant Professor in the School of Education at the State University of New York, Albany. Barbara McCaskill is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Georgia, Athens.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Multicultural Literature and Literacies: Making Space for DifferenceSuzanne M. Miller and Barbara McCaskillPart I Defining Difference: Perspectives on Writing Literature1. Seeing and Listening: A Poet's LiteraciesRon Welburn2. Liberation Literacy: Literacy and Empowerment in Marginalized American TextsValerie Babb3. Literacy, Literature, and the Liberation of the American Bluesvilles: (On Writing Our World into Being)Reggie Young4. A Stamp on the Envelope Upside Down Means Love; or, Literature and Literacy in the Multicultural ClassroomBarbara McCaskillPart II Making Space: Perspectives on Writing Policy5. The Ideology of Canons and Cultural Concerns in the Literature CurriculumAlan C. Purves6. Finding a Common Ground: Integrating Texts and TraditionsSuzanne K. Sutherland7. Multicultural Literacy and Literature: The Perspective of School PolicyGregory A. Morris8. Reading against the Cultural GrainPhillip C. Gonzales9. Some Notes on the Canon and MulticulturalismCatharine R. StimpsonPart III Making Space for Difference: Perspectives on Teaching10. Multicultural Literacy and Literature: The Teacher's PerspectiveViolet J. Harris11. Questions of Pedagogy and MulticulturalismAlpana Sharma Knippling12. Multicultural Literacy in a Middle School Writing WorkshopHasna Muhammad13. Literature about Asians and Asian Americans: Implications for Elementary ClassroomsJunko Yokota14. Why a Dialogic Pedagogy? Making Space for Possible WorldsSuzanne M. MillerAppendix: Selected Resources for Multicultural Education Expanded, Researched, and Annotated byKathleen SimsAbout the EditorsContributorsIndex

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