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The literacy myth: Literacy and social structure in the nineteenth-century city (Studies in social discontinuity)

Graff, Harvey J.

Academic Press

"This book will be a monumental contribution to the topic and a staple of scholarship for decades." —Michael B. Katz"A remarkable volume of critical synthesis and passionate revisionism." —Journal of Economic History"... ambitious and stimulating... required reading not only for social historians but also for policy-makers and activists." —Histoire Sociale"Clearly an important book... marks a significant point in the history of literacy studies." —History of Education Quarterly"A stimulating challenge to traditional assumptions and scholarly commonplaces." —Journal of Communication

The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Indiana Univ. Pr

"This book will be a monumental contribution to the topic and a staple of scholarship for decades." ―Michael B. Katz
"A remarkable volume of critical synthesis and passionate revisionism." ―Journal of Economic History
"... ambitious and stimulating... required reading not only for social historians but also for policy-makers and activists." ―Histoire Sociale
"Clearly an important book... marks a significant point in the history of literacy studies." ―History of Education Quarterly
"A stimulating challenge to traditional assumptions and scholarly commonplaces." ―Journal of Communication

The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society (Interdisciplinary Studies in History)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Indiana University Press

Dallas, Texas, a bibliographical guide to the sources of its social history to 1930

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

University of Texas at Dallas

We grow up--so simple, it just seems to happen--and yet there are endless variations in the way we do it. What part does culture play in the process? How much do politics and economics have to do with it? As the nation has matured, have the ways people grow up changed too? This book traces the many paths to adulthood that Americans have pursued over time. Spanning more than two centuries of intense transformation in the lives of individuals and the life of a nation, Conflicting Paths is an innovative history of growing up in America. 
 Harvey J. Graff, a distinguished social historian, mines more than five hundred personal narratives for what they can tell us about the passage from childhood to maturity. Drawing on diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and letters, he builds a penetrating, complex, firsthand account of how childhood, adolescence, and youth have been experienced and understood--as functions of familial and social relations, as products of biology and physiology, and as cultural and political constructs. These first-person testimonies cross the lines of time and space, gender and class, ethnicity, age, and race. In these individual stories and the larger story they constitute, Graff exposes the way social change--including institutional developments and shifting attitudes, expectations, and policy--and personal experience intertwine in the process of growing up. Together, these narratives form a challenging, subtle guide to historical experiences and to the epochal remaking of growing up. 
 The most socially inclusive and historically extensive of any such research, Graff's work constitutes an important chapter in the story of the family, the formation of modern society, and the complex interweaving of young people, tradition, and change.

Conflicting Paths: Growing Up in America

Teen & Young Adult

Harvard University Press

We grow up--so simple, it just seems to happen--and yet there are endless variations in the way we do it. What part does culture play in the process? How much do politics and economics have to do with it? As the nation has matured, have the ways people grow up changed too? This book traces the many paths to adulthood that Americans have pursued over time. Spanning more than two centuries of intense transformation in the lives of individuals and the life of a nation, Conflicting Paths is an innovative history of growing up in America.Harvey J. Graff, a distinguished social historian, mines more than five hundred personal narratives for what they can tell us about the passage from childhood to maturity. Drawing on diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and letters, he builds a penetrating, complex, firsthand account of how childhood, adolescence, and youth have been experienced and understood--as functions of familial and social relations, as products of biology and physiology, and as cultural and political constructs. These first-person testimonies cross the lines of time and space, gender and class, ethnicity, age, and race. In these individual stories and the larger story they constitute, Graff exposes the way social change--including institutional developments and shifting attitudes, expectations, and policy--and personal experience intertwine in the process of growing up. Together, these narratives form a challenging, subtle guide to historical experiences and to the epochal remaking of growing up.The most socially inclusive and historically extensive of any such research, Graff's work constitutes an important chapter in the story of the family, the formation of modern society, and the complex interweaving of young people, tradition, and change.

Americas

Growing Up in America: Historical Experiences

For this collection, Harvey Graff chose readings which, taken together, provide a detailed overview of the history of growing up in America from the colonial period to the present. Arranged chronologically, the selections document a wide variety of experiences based on gender, social class, ethnicity, race, geography, and the changing meanings and significance of age itself. Graff's general introduction and short introductory statements to each part serve as instructional guides to the key issues in the book. Since the readings focus on emerging questions and conflicting interpretations of many traditionally accepted ideas, Growing Up in America opens a variety of issues for discussion and research for the student, the historian, and the social scientist alike.

Growing up in America: Historical Experiences

Wayne State University

The ninth largest city in the United States, Dallas is exceptional among American cities for the claims of its elites and boosters that it is a “city with no limits” and a “city with no history.” Home to the Dallas Cowboys, self-styled as “America’s Team,” setting for the television series that glamorized its values of self-invention and success, and site of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Dallas looms disproportionately large in the American imagination. Yet it lacks an identity of its own.
In The Dallas Myth, Harvey J. Graff presents a novel interpretation of a city that has proudly declared its freedom from the past. He scrutinizes the city’s origin myth and its governance ideology, known as the “Dallas Way,” looking at how these elements have shaped Dallas and served to limit democratic participation and exacerbate inequality. Advancing beyond a traditional historical perspective, Graff proposes an original, integrative understanding of the city’s urban fabric and offers an explicit critique of the reactionary political foundations of modern Dallas: its tolerance for right-wing political violence, the endemic racism and xenophobia, and a planning model that privileges growth and monumental architecture at the expense of the environment and social justice. 
Revealing the power of myths that have defined the city for so long, Graff presents a new interpretation of Dallas that both deepens our understanding of America’s urban landscape and enables its residents to envision a more equitable, humane, and democratic future for all.
Harvey J. Graff is Ohio Eminent Scholar in Literacy Studies and professor of English and history at Ohio State University. Among his books are The Literacy Myth and Conflicting Paths: Growing Up in America. "Harvey Graff begins by telling us that living in Dallas challenged all that he knew about cities. This richly-researched and beautifully-written book does the same for the rest of us. Its provocative historical analysis of space, growth, economics, politics, culture, and memory offers an uncommonly lucid account of inequality, segregation, and their denial." —Ira Katznelson, author of When Affirmative Action Was White "The Dallas Myth is an entertaining and meditative reflection on history and the imagination, written with the clear, grounded intelligence of a leading historian at the top of his game." —Michael Frisch, author of Portraits in Steel

The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of an American City

Univ. of Minnesota Press

Literacy Myths, Legacies, and Lessons: New Studies on Literacy

In his latest writings on the history of literacy and its importance for present understanding and future rethinking, historian Harvey J. Graff continues his critical revisions of many commonly held ideas about literacy. The book speaks to central concerns about the place of literacy in modern and late-modern culture and society, and its complicated historical foundations. Drawing on other aspects of his research, Graff places the chapters that follow in the context of current thinking and major concerns about literacy, and the development of both historical and interdisciplinary studies. Special emphasis falls upon the usefulness of "the literacy myth" as an important subject for interdisciplinary study and understanding. Critical stock-taking of the field includes reflections on Graff’s own research and writings of the last three decades, and the relationships that connect interdisciplinary rethinking and the literacy myth. The collection is noteworthy for its attention to Graff’s reflections on his identification of "the literacy myth" and in developing LiteracyStudies@OSU (Ohio State University) as a model for university-wide interdisciplinary programs. It also deals with ordinary concerns about literacy, or illiteracy, that are shared by academics and concerned citizens. These nontechnical essays will speak to both academic and nonacademic audiences across disciplines and cultural orientations.

Literature & Fiction

Heath, Shirley Brice

History & Criticism

Routledge

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The literacy myth: Literacy and social structure in the nineteenth-century city (Studies in social discontinuity)

The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society

The Legacies of Literacy: Continuities and Contradictions in Western Culture and Society (Interdisciplinary Studies in History)

Dallas, Texas, a bibliographical guide to the sources of its social history to 1930

Conflicting Paths: Growing Up in America

Conflicting Paths: Growing Up in America

Growing up in America: Historical Experiences

The Dallas Myth: The Making and Unmaking of an American City

Literacy Myths, Legacies, and Lessons: New Studies on Literacy

Literacy Myths, Legacies, and Lessons: New Studies on Literacy