Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-429) and index.
Contents:
CCCC and the "Students' Right To Their Own Language" 23. Ebonics, Language Theory, and Research -- 1. Introduction to Ebonics -- 2. From African to African American -- 3. White English in Blackface, Or, Who Do I Be? -- 4. Discriminatory Discourse on African American Speech -- 5. "A New Way of Talkin'": Language, Social Change, and Political Theory -- 6. Review of Noam Chomsky's Language and Responsibility -- Pt. 2. Language and the Education of African Americans -- 7. English Teacher, Why You Be Doing the Thangs You Don't Do? -- 8. "What Go Round Come Round": King in Perspective -- 9. Ebonics, King, and Oakland: Some Folk Don't Believe Fat Meat is Greasy -- 10. African American Student Writers in the NAEP, 1969-88/89 and "The Blacker the Berry, the Sweeter the Juice" -- Pt. 3. Language and Culture -- 11. "How I Got Ovuh": African World View and African American Oral Tradition -- 12. "If I'm Lyin, I'm Flyin": The Game of Insult in Black Language -- 13. "Makin a Way Outa No Way": The Proverb Tradition in the Black Experience -- 14. Testifyin, Sermonizin, and Signifyin: Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the African American Verbal Tradition -- 15. "The Chain Remain the Same": Communicative Practices in the Hip Hop Nation -- Pt. 4. Language Policy, Politics, and Power -- 16. African Americans and "English Only" -- 17. "Mis-Education of the Negro" - and You Too -- 18. Language and Democracy in the USA and the RSA -- 19. Review of Multilingual Education for South Africa / Heugh et al -- Pt. 5. Columns -- 20. Soul 'N Style -- 21. Black English: So Good It's "Bad" -- 22. "Still I Rise": Education Against the Odds in Cuba -- Pt. 6. Struggle Continues -- 23. CCCC and the "Students' Right To Their Own Language"
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