Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-122) and index.
Contents
The color of literacy : race, self, and the public ethos -- From reading race to race as a way of reading -- Chesnutt's reconstruction of race and dialect -- Of color and culture : Du Bois's evolving perspectives on race -- "Reading my words but not my mind" : Hurston's ironic voice -- The rhetoric of Black voice : implications for composition pedagogy.