The Struggle and the Tools: Oral and Literate Strategies in an Inner City Community - Couverture souple

Cushman, Ellen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791439828 ISBN 13 : 9780791439821

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1998

Synopsis

Explores the daily lives of a group of inner city residents, focusing particularly upon their language use and other types of literate strategies used to gain resources, access to social institutions, and respect.

The Struggle and the Tools explores the daily lives and language use of African-American men, women, and children living in an inner city neighborhood. Based on three-and-a-half years of fieldwork, this book presents the oral, literate, and analytical strategies (the "tools") inner city residents use to gain resources, access to social institutions, and respect (the "struggle"). It honors both the types of agency present in the struggle, and the kinds of linguistic savvy present in the tools. It examines the deep games of power they play with their language and social consciousness and characterizes their daily experiences without glorification.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ellen Cushman is a Senior Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791439828
• ISBN 13: 9780791439821
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 300
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• Personne responsable: non disponible