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Publication details [#40732]

Fisher, Maisha T. 2004. "The Song Is Unfinished": The New Literate and Literary and Their Institutions. Written Communication 21 (3) : 290–312.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

literacy | race | social role | writing

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Drawing on McHenry and Heath’s study of the "literate" and the "literary" and McHenry’s study of "forgotten readers", this paper investigates the often undocumented literacy traditions of people of African descent, and the link between Black literacy and social movements.