Questions for Street and for Richardson.

• Street argues that literacy is a “social practice.” Using examples from Hull & Schultz, Richardson and/or Newkirk, explain what Street means.
• Street also argues that literacy is “always contested, both its meanings and its practices, hence particular versions of it are always “ideological”, they are always rooted in a particular world-view and in a desire for that view of literacy to dominate and marginalize others” (p.694 in reader). How might our discussion of Friere and/or racial power dynamics play into his conception of literacy?
• Richardson writes that “African American females’ language and literacy practices reflect their socialization in a racialized, genderized,sexualized, and classed world in which they employ their language and literacy practices to protect and advance themselves” (p. 637 in reader). How does this intersectionality create a unique linguistic practice? How does Richardson see these affect African American female students?