Foreword / Arnetha F. Ball and Carol D. Lee On critical urban education: an introduction / Valerie Kinloch Pt. I. In consideration of family and community literacies / Juan C. Guerra Aprendiendo de sus comunidades/Learning from their communities: bilingual teachers researching urban Latino neighborhoods / Lucila D. Ek ... [et al.] A different world: black bookstores as literary counterpublics / Marc Lamont Hill Identity construction in the borderlands: the Acosta family / Carmen M. Martínez-Roldán and Guillermo Malavé Double reading: young black scholars responding to whiteness in a community literacy program / Stephanie Power Carter and Kafi D. Kumasi The buzz on teaching and community / Anne Haas Dyson and Celia Genishi A different kind of teaching: culture circles as professional development for freedom / Mariana Souto-Manning (Re)Framing teaching in urban classrooms: a poststructural (re)reading of critical literacy as curricular and pedagogical practice / Marcelle M. Haddix and Mary Alexandra Rojas Down for the ride but not for the die: theatre as language for incarcerated girls / Maisha T. Winn Pt. III. Studies on popular culture and forms of multimodality / Colleen Fairbanks and Detra Price-Dennis Writing as a site of struggle: popular culture, empowerment, and politics of (in)visibility / Korina Jocson and Jamal Cooks Is it bigger than hip-hop? Examining the problems and potential of hip-hop in the curriculum / Jung Kim "The consciousness of the verbal artist": understanding vernacular literacies in digital and embodied spaces / Django Paris and David E. Kirkland Conclusion: Reflections and insights on urban education / Valerie Kinloch, Sonia Nieto, and Peter Smagorinsky Afterword: What if... / JoBeth Allen
