Introduction: the pursuit of liberty 1. Literacy, opportunity and economic change 2. Literacy and illiteracy in documentary America 3. Accumulating literacy: how four generations of one American family learned to write 4. 'The power of it': sponsors of literacy in African American lives 5. The sacred and the profane: reading vs. writing in popular memory 6. The means of production: literacy and stratification at the 21st century Conclusion.
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