Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power, and Identity (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, Series Number 22)
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Literacy and Literacies: Texts, Power, and Identity (Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language, Series Number 22)
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Developing a new synthesis of literacy studies, this book explores the domain of power through questions of colonialism, modern state formation, educational systems and official versus popular literacies. James Collins and Richard Blot present a critical discussion of particular cases and discuss the role of literacies in the formation of class, gender, and ethnic identity.
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