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The culture wars continue to rage across the United States.
Clashes over hate speech regulations, affirmative action, abortion,
immigration, art, history, and lifestyle questions suggest that
America is more polarized than ever before. This study looks at the
rapid changes occurring in cities and suburbs in order to
understand these cultural conflicts which, according to Rodriguez,
have arisen in part because Americans continue to view themselves
as city people or suburbanites in a time when the two areas are
converging. As suburbs draw more businesses and residents, they
produce new forms of art and cultural events which longtime
residents resist as undermining the essentially residential quality
of suburbs. Similarly, in cities, new parking structures, highways,
and downtown malls produce suburban landscapes that urbanites
reject, seeing those changes as evidence of the intrusion of
suburban culture. Four community conflicts in the Bay Area from the
1960s to the 1990s illustrate these changes.
In the San Francisco Bay Area, freeways and rapid transit have
brought city and suburb closer together. Local residents have
resisted these changes that threaten their communities' original
identities. In San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose and Concord,
residents have clashed over the construction of freeways and rapid
transit, urban and suburban redevelopment, affirmative action, and
modern art. In each locality, rapid changes produced conflict over
local identities, as white, black, and Chicano residents have
attempted to maintain a clear distinction between urban and
suburban culture in the face of forces that are driving city and
suburb closer together.
Through an innovative approach of critical ethnography and literacy
research via case-study methodologies, Enacting Adolescent
Literacies across Communities: Latino/a Scribes and Their Rites
analyzes Latino/a adolescents' engagement with the elements of
literacy for English language arts learning and understanding. How
young people enact literacies in their bicultural lives and
understand literary traditions today reveals their own interests in
democracy, equity, and opportunity. Moreover, the rites they
perform often recover buried histories, mirrors, and stories
similar to the pre-Columbian scribes whose intellectual legacy is
relevant in the twenty-first century. R. Joseph Rodriguez
illustrates how adolescents experience scribal identities and
language pluralism that sustains their cultural knowledge as they
make meaning and enact literacies with diverse audiences in civic
and schooling communities.
In this book, Rodriguez uses theories of critical literacy and
culturally responsive teaching to argue that our schools, and our
culture, need sustaining and inclusive young adult (YA)
literature/s to meet the needs of culturally and linguistically
diverse readers and all students. This book provides an outline for
the study of literature through cultural and literary criticism,
via essays that analyze selected YA literature (drama, fiction,
nonfiction, and poetry) in four areas: scribal identities and the
self-affirmation of adolescents; gender and sexualities; schooling
and education of young adult characters; and teachers' roles and
influences in characters' coming of age. Applying critical literacy
theories and a youth studies lens, this book shines a light on the
need for culturally sustaining and inclusive pedagogies to read
adolescent worlds. Complementing these essays are critical
conversations with seven key contemporary YA literature writers,
adding biographical perspectives to further expand the critical
scholarship and merits of YA literature.
Through an innovative approach of critical ethnography and literacy
research via case-study methodologies, Enacting Adolescent
Literacies across Communities: Latino/a Scribes and Their Rites
analyzes Latino/a adolescents' engagement with the elements of
literacy for English language arts learning and understanding. How
young people enact literacies in their bicultural lives and
understand literary traditions today reveals their own interests in
democracy, equity, and opportunity. Moreover, the rites they
perform often recover buried histories, mirrors, and stories
similar to the pre-Columbian scribes whose intellectual legacy is
relevant in the twenty-first century. R. Joseph Rodriguez
illustrates how adolescents experience scribal identities and
language pluralism that sustains their cultural knowledge as they
make meaning and enact literacies with diverse audiences in civic
and schooling communities.
In this book, Rodriguez uses theories of critical literacy and
culturally responsive teaching to argue that our schools, and our
culture, need sustaining and inclusive young adult (YA)
literature/s to meet the needs of culturally and linguistically
diverse readers and all students. This book provides an outline for
the study of literature through cultural and literary criticism,
via essays that analyze selected YA literature (drama, fiction,
nonfiction, and poetry) in four areas: scribal identities and the
self-affirmation of adolescents; gender and sexualities; schooling
and education of young adult characters; and teachers' roles and
influences in characters' coming of age. Applying critical literacy
theories and a youth studies lens, this book shines a light on the
need for culturally sustaining and inclusive pedagogies to read
adolescent worlds. Complementing these essays are critical
conversations with seven key contemporary YA literature writers,
adding biographical perspectives to further expand the critical
scholarship and merits of YA literature.
Combining the religious intrigue and treasure hunting of Dan
Brown's "The Da Vinci Code" with the suspense of John Grisham's
"The Firm," "Sacred Relics" tells the shocking story of Cardinal
Angelo Cesario-a man who will stop at nothing to become Pope. From
robbing Saints' tombs in Europe to murder in Cleveland, Ohio, this
page turner culminates in a thrilling climax few could expect.
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