Table of Contents

Contents: The War on Public Schools and Literacy – Counter-War Approach: Critical Literacy – The War on Youth Culture – A Guide to Using the Unit Plans – Class Wars: Lord of the Flies Meets Precious – Race Wars: A Step from Heaven with a Part-Time Indian – Gender Wars: Persepolis at the House on Mango Street – Power Wars: A Maus at Fahrenheit 451.

About the Author

Priya Parmar, PhD, is Associate Professor of Secondary Education and Program Head of English Education at Brooklyn College – CUNY. Her most recently published scholarly works include Knowledge Reigns Supreme: The Critical Pedagogy of Hip Hop Artist KRS-ONE and «Towards New Epistemological Possibilities: The Critical Complex Epistemology of Hip Hop Culture» in Teaching Joe Kincheloe.
Hindi Krinsky, EdD, is a former secondary English Language Arts teacher and current college instructor of Secondary Education at Brooklyn College – CUNY. Her most recently published scholarly works include contributions to The Internet and Higher Education, Sequential Art Narrative Journal, and the forthcoming books Plants and Literature: Essays in Critical Plant Studies and More Pie: Essays on Entering Academia.