Talkin black talk : language, education, and social change / edited by H. Samy Alim and John Baugh.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Alim, H. Samy, Baugh, John, 1949-
Language:English
Published: New York : Teachers College Press, [2007], ©2007.
Series:Multicultural education series (New York, N.Y.)
Subjects:
Black English > United States.
Black English > Social aspects.
African Americans > Languages.
English language > Social aspects > United States.
Language and education > United States.
Sociolinguistics > United States.
Physical Description:xvi, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Variant Title:
Talking black talk.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "The Whig Party don't exist in my hood": knowledge, reality, and education in the hip hop nation / H. Samy Alim
  • The ebonics phenomenon, language planning, and the hegemony of standard English / Charles E. DeBose
  • Developing academic English for standard English learners / Noma LeMoine and Sharroky Hollie
  • The art and science of teaching narrative reading comprehension: an innovative approach / Angela Rickford
  • The power of the rap: the black idiom and the new black poetry / Geneva Smitherman
  • Sounds bouncin off paper: black language memories and meditations / Sonia Sanchez
  • African American communicative practices: improvisation, semantic license, and augmentation / Arthur K. Spears
  • Linguistic emancipation in global perspective / John Baugh and Geneva Smitherman
  • If our children are our future, why are we stuck in the past?: beyond the Anglicists and the Creolists, and toward social change / Sonja Lanehart
  • Mother-tongue education and the African renaissance, with special reference to South Africa / Neville Alexander.