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2018
Volume 73, Issue 1
  • ISSN: 0010-096X
  • E-ISSN: 1939-9006

Abstract

This essay explores the implications of as a universally received narrative about literacy. I recontextualize the book as a product of 20th-century histories of literacy as normative middle class desires, and as a response to Cold War era ideologies of a white national language.

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