Reading Minority Women's Literacy Practices

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What do these women's stories tell us about race and literacy?

Selfe and Hawisher, in their essay with Nichole Brown, paraphrase Anthony Giddens: "every person has a deep and profound understanding of the social circumstances within which he or she operates and that each person shapes through his or her own actions" (2004, p. 217). This duality of structure is evident in these interviews in how the young women portray their agency and the limitations on that agency. My hope is that these interviews open a space where the relationship between race and technology can be understood as more complex and less reducible than it is often portrayed in popular culture. Furthermore, I hope this exhibit, within the context of other exhibits using DALN materials, demonstrates for readers/viewers the value of the archive as a valuable scholarly resource in addition to its value as a space for the public to exchange literacy stories.

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