| Foreword | |
| Introduction | 1 |
| Ch. 1 | Chat room musings : English teaching in a changing world | 11 |
| Ch. 2 | A history not yet past : where then is here? | 24 |
| Ch. 3 | Uncertain relations : English and cultural studies | 36 |
| Ch. 4 | Passionate contracts : discursive contradiction and struggle in secondary English teacher education programs | 57 |
| Ch. 5 | "Words is changin' every day" : language and literacy in the urban contact zone | 68 |
| Ch. 6 | Tightrope walkers : the balancing and unbalancing act of teaching writing | 81 |
| Ch. 7 | "Trying to bend the tree when it is already grown" : spanning the spectrum of African diaspora engushes in the college writing classroom | 92 |
| Ch. 8 | Developing critical responses to stories in many media | 106 |
| Ch. 9 | Words and windows : using technology for critical literacy | 117 |
| Ch. 10 | Context, text, and tests : issues in English assessment in the United States | 132 |