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| Document Type: | Book |
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Geneva Smitherman |
| ISBN: | 0415208645 9780415208642 0415208653 9780415208659 |
| OCLC Number: | 40660105 |
| Description: | xvi, 457 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: From Ghetto Lady to Critical Linguist -- Ebonics, Language Theory, and Research -- Introduction to Ebonics -- From African to African American -- White English in Blackface, Or, Who Do I Be? -- Discriminatory Discourse on African American Speech -- "A New Way of Talkin'": Language, Social Change, and Political Theory -- Review of Noam Chomsky's Language and Responsibility -- Language and the Education of African Americans -- English Teacher, Why You Be Doing the Thangs You Don't Do? -- "What Go Round Come Round": King in Perspective -- Ebonics, King, and Oakland: Some Folk Don't Believe Fat Meat is Greasy -- African American Student Writers in the NAEP, 1969-88/89 and "The Blacker the Berry, the Sweeter the Juice" -- Language and Culture -- "How I Got Ovuh": African World View and African American Oral Tradition -- "If I'm Lyin, I'm Flyin": The Game of Insult in Black Language -- "Makin a Way Outa No Way": The Proverb Tradition in the Black Experience -- Testifyin, Sermonizin, and Signifyin: Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the African American Verbal Tradition -- "The Chain Remain the Same": Communicative Practices in the Hip Hop Nation -- Language Policy, Politics, and Power -- African Americans and "English Only" -- The "Mis-Education of the Negro" - and You Too -- Language and Democracy in the USA and the RSA -- Review of Multilingual Education for South Africa / Heugh et al. -- Columns -- Soul 'N Style -- Black English: So Good It's "Bad" -- "Still I Rise": Education Against the Odds in Cuba -- The Struggle Continues. |
| Responsibility: | Geneva Smitherman. |
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"A thoroughly engaging collection, intelligently conceived, and well presented. Smitherman is a force in her field, a true leader, a pioneer. Strongly recommended for all academic and public libraries."<br>-"Choice, March 2000 <br>..."Witty, often acerbic...No one who is interested in the sway of language over class and culture should miss this book."<br>-"Publisher's Weekly, November 15, 1999 <br>"A central cultural site for debates along America's racial divide is the issue of language. For several decades, Geneva Smitherman has been the preeminent scholar of African-American language and culture. Her impressive body of scholarly research has educated and informed an entire generation of African-Americans on the meaning of black language. Dr. Smitherman writes with power as well as grace. She provokes and challenges readers to rethink the complicated relationship between language and power within society. In the great tradition of African-American scholars such as W.E.B. DuBois and Carter G. Woodson, Dr. Smitherman grounds her analysis in a passionate commitment to the liberation of her people. "Talkin' that Talk presents her impressive intellectual vision that examines the issue of language rights for African-Americans."<br>-Manning Marable, Director, Institute for Research in African-American Studies, Columbia University <br>"This work represents the strength and development of one of the leading scholars in the area of African American language study and politics. In this very important collection, Geneva Smitherman chronicles and celebrates the political, cultural and educational history of African American speech."<br>-Marcyliena Morgan, Harvard University <br>"This is the bookwe have been waiting for: an intelligent, engaging and persuasive discussion of African American language within its cultural and political context."<br>-Mary Bucholz, Texas A & M University <br> Read more...
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- African Americans -- Languages.
- African Americans -- Education.
- African Americans -- Social life and customs.
- Black English.
- Americanisms.
- Noirs américains -- Langues.
- Noirs américains -- Moeurs et coutumes.
- Black English (Dialecte)
- Anglais (Langue) -- États-Unis -- Idiotismes.
- Kultur -- Schwarze -- USA.
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