Missing stories, missing lives: Urban girls (re)constructing race and gender in the literacy classroom

Urban Education

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 279-329

  DeBlase, Gina L ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent girls; Identity construction; Literacy; Literature

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038784249     PISSN: 00420859     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0042085903038003002     Document Type: Review

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