Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction: The Pursuit of Literacy
- 1 Literacy, Opportunity, and Economic Change
- 2 Literacy and Illiteracy in Documentary America
- 3 Accumulating Literacy
- 4 “The Power of It”
- 5 The Sacred and the Profane
- 6 The Means of Production
- Conclusion: Literacy in American Lives
- APPENDIX: INTERVIEW SCRIPT
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Introduction: The Pursuit of Literacy
- 1 Literacy, Opportunity, and Economic Change
- 2 Literacy and Illiteracy in Documentary America
- 3 Accumulating Literacy
- 4 “The Power of It”
- 5 The Sacred and the Profane
- 6 The Means of Production
- Conclusion: Literacy in American Lives
- APPENDIX: INTERVIEW SCRIPT
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
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- Literacy in American Lives , pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001