A Search Past Silence: The Literacy of Young Black Men

by David E. Kirkland

Book Overview

This beautifully written book argues that educators need to understand the social worlds and complex literacy practices of African American males in order to pay the increasing educational debt we owe all youth and break the school-to-prison pipeline. Moving portraits from the lives of six friends bring to life the structural characteristics and qualities of meaning-making practices, particularly practices that reveal the political tensions of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807754072
• ISBN13: 9780807754078
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"