Priti Chopra's "Betrayal and Solidarity:" Wow, the binary relationships presented in this essay were like logic-puzzles and could be a bit paralyzing in some situations. For example, to conduct an ethnography in literacy is to reconstruct the ethnographer as literate and the previously viewed as illiterate literate, therefore, reinscribing a power structure. Using the example the study I am proposing as part of this class, the back-to-farm graduates aren't seen within our community as "illiterate" because this group has power and agency in the community. But the reason to conduct this study is that others outside the community may not share my view of the American farmer and my institution, outside of the ag department, has not discussed the needs of these specific students. Yet, as Chopra cautions, I should be careful not to create a new binary of responsibility and blame. How much of the work of ethnography in literacy is about identifying the problem with an implication of blame? We have to be careful to offer the same understanding and careful attention to the institution, people, etc. that may be blamed as a result of an ethnographic study.