B.A.PS.

This blog responds to the book "Readers of the Quilt: Essays on Being Black, Female, and Literate" by Joanna Kilgour Dowdy. Other essays include Jaqueline Royster, Elaine Richardson, and Star Parker. Posts are written by the Black American Princess's Amber Evangelista, Chanel Rogers, and Jasmine Yancy.

Thursday, March 17, 2011

Voices of our Foremothers

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This story is a personal dedication from the author Sunny-Marie Birney that tells her story of how Black women, particularly in education, h...

Formal and Informal Lessons

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The African American community used oral and written forms of communication to spread the word on how they would interact with the white pop...
Sunday, March 6, 2011

Unearthing Hidden Literacy:Seven lessons I learned in a cotton field

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When thinking about the historical times of slavery, I think about the unpleasant events that happen. Working in a cotton field and being b...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Forms of Literacy and Traditional Influences

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When reading Dysfunctional Literacies of Exclusion , it had broken down the different types of literacy a person can obtain. One of the mos...

Single, Black, and a Mother: From her perspective.

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“Welfare is a means to an improved quality of life, not the means to living a barely fulfilling existence.” Sandra Golden wrote an intriguin...
Monday, February 14, 2011

Women & Literacy, The Color Purple.

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In the excerpt, Women and Literacy in Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, E. Yvette Walters goes into depth about a character that displayed m...
Saturday, February 12, 2011

The Limited Leading Role for Black Women

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Black women have been viewed to hold the same role in life in society. This is displayed through television and mass media. In Reel Black Wo...
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