Literacy and Race: Access, Equity, and Freedom
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Title
Literacy and Race: Access, Equity, and Freedom
Abstract/Description
The coupling of literacy and race emphasizes their historic and contemporaneous intersection in literacy research. In this article, I draw on my scholarship and use three counternarratives to articulate how literacy and race significantly influence access, equity, and freedom. First, I examine access within the sociohistoric context of African Americans attending Calhoun Colored School. Second, I explore equity in a review of the sociohistoric context of Brown v Board and the Civil Rights Act as well as two federal studies of reading research, National Assessment of Educational Progress reading data, and the No Child Left Behind Act. Finally, I investigate freedom by demystifying linkages among the privatization and corporatization of education and reading achievement under Race to the Top's expansion of charter schools, Common Core State Standards, National Council on Teacher Quality, and their funding sources. I conclude with a call to action to courageously pursue a more educationally and socially just literacy research agenda.
Author/creator
Date
In publication
Volume
64
Issue
1
Pages
23-55
Resource type
Background/Context
Medium
Print
Background/context type
Historical
Open access/free-text available
Yes
Peer reviewed
Yes
ISSN
2381-3377
Citation
Willis, A. I. (2015). Literacy and Race: Access, Equity, and Freedom. Literacy Research: Theory, Method, and Practice, 64(1), 23–55. https://doi.org/10.1177/2381336915617617
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Historical
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