Blog 2-Scribner

There was one particular quote that stuck out to me in Scribner’s article and that is “The one undisputed fact about illiteracy in America is its concentration among poor, black, elderly, and minority-language groups-groups without effective participation in our country’s economic and educational institutions (Hunter and Harman).” Part of the reason this stuck out so much was because of the truth in it. It my first blog post I mention that I was interested in how economic factors limit one’s access to the tools they need to be literate. These groups, the ones “without effective participation in our country’s economic and educational institutions” are the groups that need these institutions the most but do not receive the access. Of course these was in the metaphor of literacy as power. Certain groups of people are kept from these resources so that they don’t have power something that I find pretty sad. However, these groups are usually literate in other ways but these literacies are seen as powerful or important. I really don’t know where I’m going with this, but it has me thinking again about economic factors that limit of allow someone to become the specific type of literate that is seen as powerful.