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cabinporn: In 1966, Eliot Wigginton began assigning quarterly writing projects to his secondary students in Rabun County, Georgia to document the lives, skills, and stories of Southern Appalachia.  In 1972, their work was published as The Foxfire Book, an immediate classic that would eventually expand to 12 volumes. A rare mix of beauty, ethnography, and practical skill — you should collect the entire series. Find the (more handsome) first edition here.    Photo by Taylor Sizemore. YES.

cabinporn:

In 1966, Eliot Wigginton began assigning quarterly writing projects to his secondary students in Rabun County, Georgia to document the lives, skills, and stories of Southern Appalachia.  In 1972, their work was published as The Foxfire Book, an immediate classic that would eventually expand to 12 volumes.

A rare mix of beauty, ethnography, and practical skill — you should collect the entire series.

Find the (more handsome) first edition here.   

Photo by Taylor Sizemore.

YES.

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Recent studies on literacy reveal that black males are fast becoming one of the most illiterate groups in our society. Many incarcerated black males live most of their adult lives in prisons. In past times, prison has been a location where many black males discovered books and reading for the first time in their lives. Conservative forces in our nation want to deny all prisoners access to books, claiming that reading is a luxury and not a right. Depriving prisoners of the right to read is deemed deserved punishment. That anyone should wish to deny access to literacy in our nation threatens the future or democracy.
bell hooks, in her book “Teaching Critical Reading” (via bowfolk)

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“SOCRATES:  You mean, for instance, if the slave is a cowherd, it is not he who will know what one should say to quiet the angry cattle, but the rhapsode?” From Plato’s Ion, in The Critical Tradition:  Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends. I can… quiet the angry cattle?  Geez.

“SOCRATES:  You mean, for instance, if the slave is a cowherd, it is not he who will know what one should say to quiet the angry cattle, but the rhapsode?”

From Plato’s Ion, in The Critical Tradition:  Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends.

I can… quiet the angry cattle?  Geez.

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