Teaching literacy in a multicultural society. This book is rich in its citations for those of us who wish to hear the echoes of real voices as we read the voices of real people living complicated lives. So should it help us all, for in some sense all of us, in these times, are eating on the street.

David Schaafsma is associate professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. he is coeditor of Literacy and Democracy: Composition Studies and Literacy in Search for a Habitable Space, Further Conversations from the Students of Jay Robinson.