Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Voices of Our Foremothers

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  As an adopted child, Sunny-Marie Birney never had a black mother figure present in her life. She was shown and given love by her Euro-Amer...
Monday, March 14, 2011

Lessons From Down Under: Reflections on Meanings of Literacy and Knowledge From an African-American Female Growing Up in Rural Alabama

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This selection is by the author Bessie House-Soremekun. "It examines the development of several forms of literacy in rural Alabam...

Unearthing Hidden Literacy

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Throughout the chapter, the author Lillie Gayle Smith, talks about her memories working in the cotton fields as a minor even though it was n...
Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Pimps, Whores and Welfare Brats

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The reliability of welfare or government aid is increasing rapidly year by year. What first started out at as a program to aid people who we...
Monday, February 21, 2011

Dysfunctional Literacies of Exclusion

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Literacy and the World Mandi Chikombero's novel is trying to convey the message that "different literacies have various implicatio...
Saturday, February 19, 2011

Black and on Welfare: What You Don't Know About Single-Parent Women

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In this novel “Black and on Welfare: What You Don’t Know About Single-Parent Women”, Sandra Golden starts her article off by first giving he...
Thursday, February 17, 2011

Literacy or Self Identity?

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Black women have often struggled to be recognized and accepted into society. We have not always been allowed to have a voice so we kept our ...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Happy Valentines Day

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V a l e n t i n e s D a y is a day where love and passion for another person is supposed to be shared. The history of Valentines Day howev...
Friday, February 11, 2011

Reel Women: Black Women and LIteracy in Feature Films

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While reading this chapter of Black women and literacy in Feature Films, it was hard for me to truly relate to what she was saying because w...
Saturday, February 5, 2011

Going Against the Grain 3

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This section talks about how after the Civil War different movements formed in order to help African Americans become literate. According to...