Books by Catherine Prendergast

Catherine Prendergast draws on various insights from legal studies and literacy studies to interrogate contemporary multicultural literacy initiatives, providing a historical basis that informs debates over affirmative action, school vouchers, reparations and high-stakes standardized testing.

English has become the language of choice for global economic, political, and cultural exchange. This book presents a study of how language lives in the imagination as much as in the world and an astute analysis of the factors that have made English so prominent and yet so elusive.