Amy Johnson Lachuk is associate professor of literacy education at Hunter College.

Amy Johnson Lachuk’s Literacy as Moral Obligation among African Americans in the Rural Southeast is literacy research at its best and most readable. She dives deep into people’s lives to uncover something many of us have forgotten: literacy as force for liberation in the face of oppression.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Back StoryChapter 1: From the Rural South to the Front Street: A Narrative Backdrop For Literacy and Education Within PinesvilleChapter 2: The Moral Responsibility of Literate PracticeChapter 3: Literacy Practices as Material and EmbodiedChapter 4: Literacy Practice as Narrative ExperienceChapter 5: Sacred Stories on Literacy and EducationChapter 6: A Communion of AdvocacyChapter 7: Toward a More Person-Centered Literacy ScholarshipAppendix A: Life History in PracticeAppendix B: Life History Interview ProtocolReferencesAbout the Author

Amy Johnson Lachuk is associate professor of literacy education at Hunter College.

Amy Johnson Lachuk’s Literacy as Moral Obligation among African Americans in the Rural Southeast is literacy research at its best and most readable. She dives deep into people’s lives to uncover something many of us have forgotten: literacy as force for liberation in the face of oppression.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Back StoryChapter 1: From the Rural South to the Front Street: A Narrative Backdrop For Literacy and Education Within PinesvilleChapter 2: The Moral Responsibility of Literate PracticeChapter 3: Literacy Practices as Material and EmbodiedChapter 4: Literacy Practice as Narrative ExperienceChapter 5: Sacred Stories on Literacy and EducationChapter 6: A Communion of AdvocacyChapter 7: Toward a More Person-Centered Literacy ScholarshipAppendix A: Life History in PracticeAppendix B: Life History Interview ProtocolReferencesAbout the Author

Amy Johnson Lachuk is associate professor of literacy education at Hunter College.

Amy Johnson Lachuk’s Literacy as Moral Obligation among African Americans in the Rural Southeast is literacy research at its best and most readable. She dives deep into people’s lives to uncover something many of us have forgotten: literacy as force for liberation in the face of oppression.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Back StoryChapter 1: From the Rural South to the Front Street: A Narrative Backdrop For Literacy and Education Within PinesvilleChapter 2: The Moral Responsibility of Literate PracticeChapter 3: Literacy Practices as Material and EmbodiedChapter 4: Literacy Practice as Narrative ExperienceChapter 5: Sacred Stories on Literacy and EducationChapter 6: A Communion of AdvocacyChapter 7: Toward a More Person-Centered Literacy ScholarshipAppendix A: Life History in PracticeAppendix B: Life History Interview ProtocolReferencesAbout the Author