Culturally contested literacies: America's "rainbow underclass" and urban schools

Introduction : America's "rainbow underclass" and inner city schooling

Where the stories began : the city and its schools

Being Vietnamese, becoming somebody

Being Sudanese, being Black

Being white, being the majority in the minority

Multicultural families and multiliteracies : tensions, conformity, and resistance to urban schooling

Culturally contested literacies and the education of America's "rainbow underclass".