This book addresses the literacy problems of African American students providing educators with an African American centred theory of rhetoric and composition.

This volume explores the unique sociocultural contexts of literacy development, values, and practices in African American communities. African Americans--young

In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to lite

Bringing together theory, research, and practice to dismantle Anti-Black Linguistic Racism and white linguistic supremacy, this book provides ethnographic snaps

This pioneering study of African American students in the composition classroom lays the groundwork for reversing the cycle of underachievement that plagues lin