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Download full textMortensen, Peter – 1996
Representations of illiteracy in bureaucratic, journalistic, and literary treatments of southern Appalachia reveal a substantial practice by metropolitans of blaming illiteracy in the region for its supposed failure to integrate materially and culturally into a national economy. Yet patterns of illiteracy in southern Appalachia resemble patterns…
Descriptors: Cultural Context, Differences, Discourse Communities, Educational History
