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Lathan, Rhea Estelle.

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Writing a wrong: A case of African American adult literacy action on the South Carolina Sea Islands, 1957--1962.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Writing a wrong: A case of African American adult literacy action on the South Carolina Sea Islands, 1957--1962./
Author:	Lathan, Rhea Estelle.
Description:	257 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-09, Section: A, page: 3334.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-09A.
Subject:	Education, Language and Literature. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3234565
ISBN:	9780542885129

Writing a wrong: A case of African American adult literacy action on the South Carolina Sea Islands, 1957--1962.
Lathan, Rhea Estelle.

Writing a wrong: A case of African American adult literacy action on the South Carolina Sea Islands, 1957--1962. - 257 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-09, Section: A, page: 3334.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2006.

In 1957 the South Carolina Sea Islands became the site for a major African American literacy crusade called the Citizenship School. The school was sponsored by the Highlander Folk Schools with the aim of increasing voter registration on the Sea Islands but became, more broadly, one of the most successful grassroots adult literacy campaigns in recent history. Relying on an extensive review of secondary sources, primary documents and a limited number of oral history interviews, this dissertation explains how Citizenship School participants drew on communicative and epistemological modes specific to African American cultural traditions to forge an effective collaboration in literacy acquisition and use. I bring forward the teaching and learning activities of grassroots women and men, illustrating how individual ways of knowing take on social, political, and spiritual meanings when forging resistance against dominant social force. The dissertation identifies local participants who contributed to the success of citizenship education, including less visible teachers and learners like Bernice Robinson, a local beautician who created the original curriculum, and Esau Jenkins, a self-employed community activist who initiated and helped organize the Citizenship School project. The participants' accounts provide grounds for researching the relationship between literacy and economic, political and social changes from the perspective of the people living through those changes. From their accounts, I develop the concept of gospel literacy, analogous to gospel music, as an analytical lens for understanding literacy teaching and learning. Gospel literacy involves specific principles---call and response, acknowledging the burden, bearing witness and finding redemption. This is a rare concept in composition studies because writing or teaching and learning research is traditionally situated in relation to academically sanctioned discourse. My analysis of the Citizenship School adult literacy crusade illustrates the ways in which critical intellectualism works outside standard parameters. The study links the concepts of gospel literacy with intellectual achievement to demonstrate how activities at the school surpassed the official goal of basic literacy for civic inclusion.

ISBN: 9780542885129Subjects--Topical Terms:

1018115
Education, Language and Literature.

Writing a wrong: A case of African American adult literacy action on the South Carolina Sea Islands, 1957--1962.
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