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The skin that we speak : thoughts on language and culture in the classroom

Author: Lisa D Delpit; Joanne Kilgour Dowdy
Publisher: New York : New Press, ©2002.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Lisa D Delpit; Joanne Kilgour Dowdy
ISBN: 1565845447 9781565845442
OCLC Number: 47271553
Description: xxiv, 229 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Language and identity: Ovuh dyuh / Joanne Kilgour Dowdy -- Ebonics : a case history / Ernie Smith -- Language in the classroom: No kinda sense / Lisa Delpit -- Trilingualism / Judith Baker -- Some basic sociolinguistic concepts / Michael Stubbs -- Language, culture, and the assessment of African American children / Asa G. Hilliard III -- I ain't writin' nuttin': permissions to fail and demands to succeed in urban classrooms / Gloria J. Ladson-Billings -- As soon as she opened her mouth!" : issues of language, literacy, and power / Victoria Purcell-Gates -- Teacher knowledge: Topsy-turvies : teacher talk and student talk / Herbert Kohl -- Toward a national public policy on language / Geneva Smitherman -- class of "common senses: two African American women become teachers / Shuaib Meacham -- We don't talk right. You ask him: Joan Wynne -- Appendix : Linguistic Society of America resolution on the Oakland "ebonics" issue.
Responsibility: edited by Lisa Delpit and Joanne Kilgour Dowdy.

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