[PDF.90be] Writing from These Roots: Literacy in a Hmong-American Community

Writing from These Roots: Literacy in a Hmong-American Community

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 | #1180388 in Books |  2011-07-31 |  2011-07-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.90 x.80 x6.20l,.0 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

 | John M. DUffy | Writing from These Roots: Literacy in a Hmong-American Community | Textbooks

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||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Excellent, Accessible Examination|By West Wing junkie|Professor John Duffy of Notre Dame has given us an academic, accessible, insightful examination of the Hmong people and the concept of "literacy," or more accurately "pre-literacy." Duffy worked with the Hmong in a refugee camp in Thailand (Phanat Nikhom), where he was told the Hmong were "pre-literate." As Duffy observes,| |"We are only beginning to recognize the global forces that have long shaped literacy in the United States. What we need now is a book that demonstrates how to theorize U.S. literacy with regard to globalization's complex legacy. Writing from These Roots satisf

Outstanding Book Award, Conference on College Composition and Communication

Writing from These Roots documents the historical development of literacy in a Midwestern American community of Laotian Hmong, a people who came to the United States as refugees from the Vietnam War and whose language had no widely accepted written form until one created by missionary-linguists was adopted in the late twentieth century by Hmong in Laos and, later, the U.S. ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Writing from These Roots: Literacy in a Hmong-American Community   |  John M. Duffy. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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