Welcome to the Poverty, Race, Women, and Literacy Discussion List, a service of the National Institute for Literacy, in partnership with the Center for the Study of Adult Literacy at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. This list is moderated by Daphne Greenberg.
The purpose of this list is to provide an on-going professional development forum for providers, advocates, researchers, learners, policy makers, and all other persons who are interested in exploring the linkages between poverty, race, women and literacy. Examples of topics include: the relationships among poverty, race, women and literacy in the United States and in other countries; health as it pertains to women and poverty issues; the hidden rules of persons living with the effects of poverty, the intersection of these effects with gender and race, and the misunderstandings these can cause in the teaching/learning process; the role of women's literacy in family literacy programs, and the assumptions about race and poverty often made in these programs; domestic violence and its intersection with poverty, race, and literacy; women's literacy levels and its ties to economics and welfare of families; access to literacy in different cultures based on gender, racial, and economic status; connection between women's literacy, race, poverty and public policy; identification of supportive communication networks; and discussion of action steps addressing women, race, poverty and literacy.
Daphne Greenberg can be reached at dgreenberg@gsu.edu.