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The liberate of U.S. census info in 1910 sparked rhetoric pointing out the kingdom had a literacy quandary and proclaiming illiterate electorate a risk to democratic lifestyles. whereas newspaper editors, industrialists, and officers within the federal executive usually positioned the blame on newly arrived immigrants, a smaller yet no much less vocal staff of rural educators and clubwomen highlighted the numerous variety of native-born illiterate adults within the Appalachian quarter. writer Samantha NeCamp appears on the academic reaction to those distinctive literacy narratives—the founding of the Moonlight colleges in jap Kentucky, concerned about native-born nonliterate adults, and the institution of the Americanization circulate, devoted to the schooling of contemporary immigrants.

Drawing on own correspondence, convention court cases, textbooks, and speeches, NeCamp demonstrates how the Moonlight colleges and the Americanization circulation competed for public realization, the curiosity of educators, and personal and governmental investment, fueling a colourful public debate concerning the definition of literacy. The very diverse pedagogical practices of the 2 movements—and how those practices have been represented to the public—helped form literacy schooling within the usa. interpreting the Moonlight colleges and the Americanization circulation in terms of each other, Adult Literacy and American Identity expands the historical past and idea of literacy and literacy schooling within the usa. This booklet may be of curiosity to students in literacy, Appalachian reviews, and rhetoric and composition.