This new volume addresses a number of important issues related to reading and writing that were not attended to in the previous volume, Deep Reading: Teaching Reading in the Writing Classroom (NCTE 2017)—especially those related to identity, culture, and positionality. In this volume the authors address the broad question of equity and social justice in the acquisition and practice of literacy, and the multifaceted lived reality of positionality related especially to race, class, language, and gender as experienced by students in the classroom.

This new volume addresses a number of important issues related to reading and writing that were not attended to in the previous volume, Deep Reading: Teaching Reading in the Writing Classroom (NCTE 2017)—especially those related to identity, culture, and positionality. In this volume the authors address the broad question of equity and social justice in the acquisition and practice of literacy, and the multifaceted lived reality of positionality related especially to race, class, language, and gender as experienced by students in the classroom.