Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Invoking Activist Imagination; Part 1: Destabilizing Formal Education's Adaptive Function; 1. Rhetorics of Adaptation and Activism; 2. Progressive Sponsors and the Uncloaking of Literacy; Part 2: Reimagining the Struggle against Rigged Citizenship; 3. Practical-Literacy Networks as a Civil Rights Tradition; 4. Reearning Activism after Rhetorical Decay; Part 3: Earning Activism in and around Higher Education; 5. Narrowing the Academic Responsibility Gap; 6. Institutionalizing Earth Literacy in ChacraMiami
Epilogue: Facilitating Educational Journeys toward ActivismNotes; Works Cited; Index; Author Biography; Back Cover
Summary
Processes of fighting unequal citizenship have historically prioritized literacy education, through which people envision universal first-class citizenship and devise practical methods for enacting this vision. In this important volume, literacy scholar Paul Feigenbaum explores how literacy education can facilitate activism in contemporary contexts in which underserved populations often remain consigned to second-class status despite official guarantees of equal citizenship. By conceiving of education as, in part, a process of understanding and grappling with adaptive and activist rhetorics, F
