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Publication details [#43212]

Pepinster Greene, Nicole. 2005. Cajun, Creole, and African American Literacy Narratives. Multicultural Perspectives 7 (4) : 39–45.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and culture | language loss | literacy | multiculturalism | narrative

Language as a subject

Cajun | Creole | English, African American

Place, Publisher

Erlbaum

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

Stressing the importance of narrative as a means of learning, this paper discusses how Cajun, Creole, and African American students in the multicultural classrooms of southwest Louisiana recover their literacy histories and discuss the link between language loss and culture and heritage loss.