Community Literacy Journal 7.1 (Fall, 2012)

Publisher Marketing: COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL 7.1 (Fall, 2012) The journal understands "community literacy" as the domain for literacy work that exists outside of mainstream educational and work institutions. It can be found in programs devoted to adult education, early childhood education, reading initiatives, lifelong learning, workplace literacy, or work with marginalized populations, but it can also be found in more informal, ad hoc projects. For COMMUNITY LITERACY JOURNAL, literacy is defined as the realm where attention is paid not just to content or to knowledge but to the symbolic means by which it is represented and used. Thus, literacy makes reference not just to letters and to text but to other multimodal and technological representations as well. We publish work that contributes to the field's emerging methodologies and research agendas. CONTENTS: ARTICLES: "Writing Democracy: Notes on a Federal Writers' Project for the 21st Century" by Shannon Carter and Deborah Mutnick "Rediscovering America: The FWP Legacy and Challenge" by Jerrold Hirsch "Informed, Passionate, and Disorderly: Uncivil Rhetoric in a New Gilded Age" by Nancy Welch "Gambian-American College Writers Flip the Script on Aid-to-Africa Discourse" by Elenore Long, Nyillan Fye, and John Jarvis "Shakespeare and the Cultural Capital Tension: Advancing Literacy in Rural Arkansas" by David A. Jolliffe "What's Writing Got to Do with It?: Citizen Wisdom, Civil Rights Activism, and 21st Century Community Literacy" by Michelle Hall Kells "A Clear Channel: Circulating Resistance in a Rural University Town" by Shannon Carter BOOK AND NEW MEDIA REVIEWS: "From the Review Desk" by Jim Bowman "Keywords: Community Publishing" by Ben Kuebrich "Literacy in Times of Crisis" reviewed by Patricia Burnes "Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Public Engagement" reviewed by Christine Martorana "Writing Home" reviewed by Rebecca Lorimer Contributor Bio:  Moore, Michael Michael Moore was born in Flint, Michigan, and attended Catholic schools, including a year in the seminary, which he says accounts for his healthy respect for the fires of hell which seem to be located somewhere just outside Crawford, Texas. He was an Eagle Scout, Newspaper Boy of the Week, and the youngest person ever elected to public office in the state of Michigan when he was 18-years old. Michael Moore is now the Oscar and Emmy-winning director of the groundbreaking and record-setting films "Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, " and "Fahrenheit 9/11" (which also won the top prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival and has gone on to become the highest grossing documentary of all time.) No Disney film this year has made as much at the box office as "Fahrenheit 9/11." It became the first documentary ever to premier at number one in the box-office in its opening weekend. Film Comment has called it "The Film of the Year."Michael Moore is also America's #1 selling nonfiction author with such books as "Stupid White Men and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation, " and "Dude, Where's My Country." No other author has spent more weeks on the "New York Times" hardcover non-fiction list in the past two years than Michael Moore. "Stupid White Men" was also awarded Britain's top book honor, "British Book of the Year," the first time the award has been bestowed on an American author. Michael now has two new books being published by Simon & Schuster: "Will They Ever Trust Us Again -- Letters from the War Zone, " which is a compilation of letters he has received from soldiers in Iraq and from their families back home; and "The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader, " which contains loads of backup materials for the film, plus essays, and the film's screenplay. In addition to winning the Academy Award for "Bowling for Columbine, " Michael Moore won the Emmy Award for his NBC and Fox series, "TV Nation" and was also nominated for his other series, "The Awful Truth" (which the "L. A. Times" called "the smartest and funniest show on TV.") Michael Moore also wrote and directed the comedy feature "Canadian Bacon" starring the late John Candy, and the BBC documentary, "The Big One." He has directed music videos for R. E. M., Rage Against the Machine, Neil Young, and System of a Down. His other best-selling books include "Downsize This! Random Threats from an Unarmed American, " and "Adventures in a TV Nation, " which he co-wrote with his wife Kathleen Glynn. His books have been translated in over 30 languages, and have gone to #1 in Italy, Germany, France, Japan, Great Britain, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. Michael currently spends his time reading, gardening, and removing George W. Bush from the White House. Contributor Bio:  Warnock, John Warnock is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officier for Adobe Systems, Inc.