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Title:

The skin that we speak : thoughts on language and culture in the classroom / edited by Lisa Delpit and Joanne Kilgour Dowdy.

Publisher:

New Press,

Copyright Date:

2008

Description:

xxvi, 229 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Native language and education.
English language--Study and teaching.
English language--Social aspects.--Social aspects.
Multicultural education.
Language policy.

Other Authors:

Delpit, Lisa D.
Dowdy, Joanne Kilgour.

Notes:

"Originally published in the United States by The New Press, New York, 2002"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-226).

Contents:

Ovuh Dyuh / Joanne Kilgour Dowdy -- Ebonics : a case history / Ernie Smith -- 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 -- Topsy-turvies : teacher talk and student talk / Herbert Kohl -- Toward a national public policy on language / Geneva Smitherman -- The clash 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.

ISBN:

1595583505 (pbk.)
9781595583505

OCLC:

(OCoLC)181139942

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

YEPF572 -- Marion Public Library (Marion)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)