Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Part 1 Winds; Chapter 1 Against the Winds; Chapter 2 The Un-Making of the Illiterate; Part 2 Voices; Chapter 3 Agents; Chapter 4 Transnationals; Chapter 5 Survivors; Part 3 Politics; Chapter 6 Literacy Politics and Policies; Chapter 7 Decolonizing Literacy; Notes; References; Index
Summary
Drawing from case studies of marginalized individuals in Mexico and the US, this book explores the colonizing concept of illiteracy, as well as how the long social history of conquest and colonization, plunder and globalization, is inscribed in the personal histories of global outcasts
