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Fisher, Maisha T. – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2006
This article examines the role of two African American-owned and -operated bookstores in the literacy practices and education of their participants. Part of a larger ethnographic study of Participatory Literacy Communities (PLCs), this study shows how featured authors and audience participants considered these bookstores as both alternative and…
Descriptors: African Americans, Books, Retailing, African American Businesses