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Reading as Collective Action

Teaching in Higher Ed

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The Grapes of Wrath - A Poem About the Great Depression

Riht: I wanted to see what real people are doing with books. And so i kind of reached out to some communities that at the in two thousand nine, or the early moments of it, were really a feeling the pain. So i actually went in, like, interviewed folks to see what they had done and what they had made of the book. Riht: In both cities that i visited, knoxville and in jackson, michigand both used book groups for collective action. They created these kind of shared practices of redistribution,. ways to talk about this family that's really struggling and have pathy. The feelings that we have when we read anserted

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