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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788578103321

Autore

Lamos Steve

Titolo

Interests and opportunities : race, racism, and university writing instruction in the post-civil rights era / / Steve Lamos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania : , : University of Pittsburgh Press, , [2011]

©2011

ISBN

0-8229-7740-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (229 p.)

Collana

Pittsburgh series in composition, literacy, and culture

Disciplina

808/.0420711

Soggetti

English language - Composition and exercises - Study and teaching - United States

Racism - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-211) and index.

Nota di contenuto

The development and evolution of high-risk writing instruction -- The late 1960s and early 1970s: Coming to terms with racial crisis -- The mid-1970s: literacy crisis meets color-blindness -- The late 1970s and early 1980s: Competence concerns in the age of Bakke -- The late 1980s and early 1990s: culture wars and the politics of identity -- The late 1990s to the present: the end of an era?