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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Real ebonics debate. Boston : Beacon Press, c1998 (OCoLC)605483851 Online version: Real ebonics debate. Boston : Beacon Press, c1998 (OCoLC)605483876 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Theresa Perry; Lisa D Delpit |
| ISBN: | 0807031453 9780807031452 |
| OCLC Number: | 38067570 |
| Notes: | "Published in collaboration with Rethinking schools." |
| Description: | xiv, 227 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | "I 'on know why they be trippin'" : reflections on the Ebonics debate / Theresa Perry -- What should teachers do? : Ebonics and culturally responsive instruction / Lisa Delpit -- Black English/Ebonics : what it be like? / Geneva Smitherman -- If Ebonics isn't a language, then tell me, what is? (pace James Baldwin, 1979) / Wayne O'Neil -- What is Black English? What is Ebonics? / Ernie Smith -- Holding on to a language of our own : an interview with linguist John Rickford -- If Black English isn't a language, then tell me, what is? / James Baldwin -- Ebonics : myths and realities / Mary Rhodes Hoover -- Embracing Ebonics and teaching Standard English : an interview with Oakland teacher Carrie Secret -- An ante-bellum sermon [poem] ; The seedling [poem] / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Kitchen poets and classroom books : literature from children's roots / Terry Meier -- "Listen to your students" : an interview with Oakland High School English teacher Hafeezah AdamaDavia Dalji -- Teaching teachers about Black communications / Terry Meier -- Ebonics speakers and cultural, linguistic, and political test bias / Mary Rhodes Hoover -- Removing the mask : roots of oppression through omission / Monique Brinson -- The Oakland Ebonics resolution [full text of the Resolution of the Board of Education Adopting the Report and Recommendations of the African-American Task Force] -- Ebonics resolution revisions -- The Oakland policy statement [Policy Statement of the Oakland School Board that accompanied the original resolution] -- Recommendations of the Task Force on Educating African-American Students -- What is the Standard English Proficiency Program? -- Oakland superintendent responds to critics of the Ebonics Policy / Carolyn Getridge -- Linguistics Society of America Resolution on Ebonics -- "What go round come round" : King in perspective / Geneva Smitherman -- Opening Pandora's box : an interview with Oakland School Board member Toni Cook -- An Oakland student speaks out / Michael Lampkins --Ebonics and the role of the community : an interview with activist Isaac Taggert -- Official language, unofficial reality : acquiring bilingual/bicultural fluency in a segregated southern community / Joyce Hope Scott -- Black English : steppin up? Lookin back / Beverly Jean Smith. |
| Other Titles: | Rethinking schools. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Theresa Perry and Lisa Delpit. |
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Abstract:
Old and new treatises on the subject are presented, including writings by Paul Lawrence Dunbar and James Baldwin as well as information surrounding the debate about the Oakland Resolution.
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