"Literacy is never neutral. It is never just about decoding letters on a page. It is about power, about agency … about the difference between being spoken about and speaking for oneself — being written about and writing one’s self into existence." thephiladelphiacitizen.org/literacy-is-...
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Literacy is Never Neutral
What Percival Everett’s National Book Award-winning James tells us about the crisis of literacy in Philadelphia.