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Decolonizing Literacy

Decolonizing Literacy

Gregorio Hernandez-Zamora

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Channel View Publications
Año de edición:
2010
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Colonialismo e imperialismo
ISBN:
9781847692627
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Drawing from case studies of marginalized individuals in Mexico and the U.S., this book explores the colonizing concept of illiteracy, as well as how the long social history of conquest and colonization, plunder and globalization, is inscribed in the personal histories of today’s global outcasts.

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