Urban literacies : critical perspectives on language, learning, and community / edited by Valerie Kinloch ; foreword by Arnetha F. Ball and Carol D. Lee ; afterword by JoBeth Allen.

Foreword / Arnetha F. Ball and Carol D. Lee
On critical urban education: an introduction / Valerie Kinloch
Pt. I. In consideration of family and community literacies / Juan C. Guerra
Aprendiendo de sus comunidades/Learning from their communities: bilingual teachers researching urban Latino neighborhoods / Lucila D. Ek ... [et al.]
A different world: black bookstores as literary counterpublics / Marc Lamont Hill
Identity construction in the borderlands: the Acosta family / Carmen M. Martínez-Roldán and Guillermo Malavé
Double reading: young black scholars responding to whiteness in a community literacy program / Stephanie Power Carter and Kafi D. Kumasi
The buzz on teaching and community / Anne Haas Dyson and Celia Genishi
A different kind of teaching: culture circles as professional development for freedom / Mariana Souto-Manning
(Re)Framing teaching in urban classrooms: a poststructural (re)reading of critical literacy as curricular and pedagogical practice / Marcelle M. Haddix and Mary Alexandra Rojas
Down for the ride but not for the die: theatre as language for incarcerated girls / Maisha T. Winn
Pt. III. Studies on popular culture and forms of multimodality / Colleen Fairbanks and Detra Price-Dennis
Writing as a site of struggle: popular culture, empowerment, and politics of (in)visibility / Korina Jocson and Jamal Cooks
Is it bigger than hip-hop? Examining the problems and potential of hip-hop in the curriculum / Jung Kim
"The consciousness of the verbal artist": understanding vernacular literacies in digital and embodied spaces / Django Paris and David E. Kirkland
Conclusion: Reflections and insights on urban education / Valerie Kinloch, Sonia Nieto, and Peter Smagorinsky
Afterword: What if... / JoBeth Allen.