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Health and Literacy
Compendium Home Page Background Information about Health and Literacy Index Page Sauerhaft, Beth and Marty Williams. Who Holds the Mirror?: The Mural, Oral Histories, and Pedagogy of the Breast Cancer Oral History Action Project. [S.l.]: Wendy Earl Productions, 1998. Available from: Peppercorn Books and Press; P.O. Box 693; Snow Camp, NC 27349; phone (336) 574-1634; fax (336) 376-9099; $10. This 100-page report is a companion piece to a traveling mural, Who Holds the Mirror? but is valuable on its own as well. The report has information of interest for a diverse audience of literacy educators, policymakers in the fields of health and literacy, adult education students, and community activists. It describes the process of bringing literacy students together to conduct action research into the breast cancer epidemic. It includes a description of the people included in the mural and the ideas embodied in the mural. Over half of the pages of this publication are devoted to the oral histories of women who have had breast cancer. The oral histories were gathered by women conducting action research as part of a literacy class. They chose to interview low-income women and women of color, who are generally ignored in mainstream accounts of breast cancer. Some of the oral histories are in English, some in Spanish, and others in Chinese. The report includes a selected listing of health, environmental, literacy and community organizations to help people who want to do similar work. Keywords: Action research / Breast cancer / Literacy education, learner-centered / Oral history / People of color |