"Get up and get on"

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In this qualitative research study, I examine the literacy practices of five families who resided in a homeless shelter and the larger social, cultural, institutional and historical contexts of their lives. I frame the study around sociocultural perspectives of literacy with attention to the complexity of literacy as it is taken up for fulfilling cultural and social goals within families, neighborhoods, and communities. Rejected in this study is the notion that literacy is the silver bullet for overcoming the stark inequalities represented in U.S. society. Rather, literacy is complicated through the lens of sponsorship (Brandt, 2001) to suggest the differential access people have to literacy, the power sponsors have to sanction particular forms of literacy that are not ne

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