12%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
American by Paper: How Documents Matter in Immigrant Literacy
Kate Vieira
€ 30.99
€ 27.31
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for American by Paper: How Documents Matter in Immigrant Literacy
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
American by Paper reveals how two groups of immigrants who share a primary language nevertheless have very different experiences of literacy in the United States. It describes the social realities facing documented and undocumented immigrants who use everyday acts of writing to negotiate papers-the visas, green cards, and passports that promise access to the American Dream. It is both an ethnography, filled with illuminating details about contemporary immigrant lives, and a critical intervention into two leading-and conflicting-scholarly ideas of literacy and its social role. Although popular thinking and scholarship have viewed literacy as a method of culturally ... Read more
American by Paper reveals how two groups of immigrants who share a primary language nevertheless have very different experiences of literacy in the United States. It describes the social realities facing documented and undocumented immigrants who use everyday acts of writing to negotiate papers-the visas, green cards, and passports that promise access to the American Dream. It is both an ethnography, filled with illuminating details about contemporary immigrant lives, and a critical intervention into two leading-and conflicting-scholarly ideas of literacy and its social role. Although popular thinking and scholarship have viewed literacy as a method of culturally ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
254g
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816697526
SKU
V9780816697526
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
About Kate Vieira
Kate Vieira is assistant professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Reviews for American by Paper: How Documents Matter in Immigrant Literacy
A riveting account of those pursuing the American Dream. -CHOICE Vieira aims to contribute to the social history of literacy with American By Paper, informing pedagogy and practice through a comprehensive consideration of literacy, documents, and bureaucracy in ordinary life. -PoLAR I leave Vieira's book feeling deeply that ours is a crazy system: ... Read more