{"product_id":"the-violence-of-literacy","title":"The Violence of Literacy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book counters most of our prevailing views about literacy. It says that literacy  rather than enfranchising people  is violent  ulterior  and uniquely devoted to Western economic ends. It claims that the literacy profession perpetuates injustice  whether it knows it or not. This is a book for anyone who thinks that reading and writing are important to learning. In this respect  its a book for everyone  but its primarily for people on the hotseatEnglish teachers  especially composition\/writing\/rhetoric teachers  and teachers of dropouts and adults and minorities. The book addresses economics and social class  the political structure in which English teaching fits  the character of labor  the psychology or psychotherapy of literacy  and the future of social freedom in America. This is an angry book written by an angry English teacher: The author is angry that literacy is the center of the storm; angry that the center of the storm foments nothing but itself; angry that most of what we do  even the good that we do  remains academic  powerless  and self-serving. What solutions are offered? The author argues that literacy is not the solution. she argues that economics is the agenda  that the ability to read and write is less important than the ability to pay. The reality is that whose who set the agenda use literacy and literacy standards to maintain privilege and parcel disadvantage. The violence of literacy becomes  therefore  the customary domain of those who foresee no real change while foretelling it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44952292163637,"sku":"ByrdShop_086709270X","price":54.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780867092707.jpg?v=1770158041","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-violence-of-literacy","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}