Feel these words writing in the lives of urban youth
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- ISBN: 9781441616180 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1441616187 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (xii, 189 p.) - Publisher: Albany : SUNY Press, c2009.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Multi-User. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | "I am me but who am I?": presenting the writers -- "You never let me speak": power, language, and learning -- "Questioning myself and the people around me": identifications and communality in imaginative writing -- "You gotta be a writer to get in the game": understanding rap as a literate discourse -- Pregnancy, pimps & "clichéd love things": writing through gender and sexuality -- "My work sparked an interest in someone else": the pleasures of imaginative writing -- "I'm book smart, street smart & everything in between": writing, literate identity, and academic achievement -- "If you can't write you can't succeed": changing attitudes among educators and youth -- Epilogue: where are they now? |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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