Contents: K. Halasek, N.P. Highberg, Introduction: Locality and Basic Writing. Part I:(Re)Defining Basic Writing and Basic Writers.A. Rich, Teaching Language in Open Admissions (1979). P. Bizzell, What Happens When Basic Writers Come to College (1986)? M. Rose, Narrowing the Mind and Page: Remedial Writers and Cognitive Reductionism (1988). M-Z. Lu, Redefining the Legacy of Mina Shaughnessy: A Critique of the Politics of Linguistic Innocence (1991). Part II:Postmodernism and Literacy Education.K, Fiore, N. Elsasser, "Strangers No More": A Liberatory Literacy Curriculum (1982). L.D. Delpit, The Silenced Dialogue: Power and Pedagogy in Educating Other People's Children (1988). G.G. Patthey-Chavez, C. Gergen.Culture as an Instructional Resource in the Multiethnic Composition Classroom (1992). D. Lazere, Back to Basics: A Force for Oppression or Liberation (1992)? M-Z. Lu, Conflict and Struggle: The Enemies or Preconditions of Basic Writing (1992). Part III:Toward a Post-Critical Pedagogy of Basic Writing.J. Harris, Negotiating the Contact Zone (1995). D. Bartholomae.The Tidy House: Basic Writing in the American Curriculum (1993). G. Stygall, Resisting Privilege: Basic Writing and Foucault's Author Function (1994). J.C. Scott, Literacies and Deficits Revisited (1993). J.J. Royster, R.G. Taylor, Constructing Teacher Identity in the Basic Writing Classroom (1997).