Earning "dual degrees": Black bookstores as alternative knowledge spaces

Anthropology and Education Quarterly

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 83-99

  Fisher, Maisha T ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; Alternative knowledge; Bookstores; Homeschooling; Participatory literacy communities

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645145243     PISSN: 01617761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/aeq.2006.37.1.83     Document Type: Article

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