Feel these words : writing in the lives of urban youth / Susan Weinstein.
Material type: TextPublication details: Albany : SUNY Press, c2009.Description: xii, 189 p. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781438426518 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1438426518 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9781438426525 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 1438426526 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 808.066071277311 WEI 22
- LB1631 .W354 2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
"I am me but who am I?": presenting the writers -- "You never let me speak": power, language, and learning -- "Questioning myself and the people around me": identifications and communality in imaginative writing -- "You gotta be a writer to get in the game": understanding rap as a literate discourse -- Pregnancy, pimps & "clichéd love things": writing through gender and sexuality -- "My work sparked an interest in someone else": the pleasures of imaginative writing -- "I'm book smart, street smart & everything in between": writing, literate identity, and academic achievement -- "If you can't write you can't succeed": changing attitudes among educators and youth -- Epilogue: where are they now?
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