The black side of the river : race, language, and belonging in Washington, DC / Jessica A. Grieser.

"This is a book about language. It is also a book about identities-race, place, and class-based-in Washington, DC's Anacostia neighborhood, and how those identities are bound together. It is a book about who belongs to a community and how that community lays claim to its space and its very character...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Grieser, Jessica A. (Author)
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
African Americans > Washington (D.C.) > History.
African Americans > Washington (D.C.) > Language.
Sociolinguistics > Washington (D.C.)
Discourse analysis > Washington (D.C.)
Anacostia (Washington, D.C.) > History.
Washington (D.C.) > Race relations.
Washington (D.C.) > History.
Noirs américains > Washington (D.C.) > Histoire.
Sociolinguistique > Washington (D.C.)
Washington (D.C.) > Histoire.
African Americans.
African Americans > Language.
Discourse analysis.
Race relations.
Sociolinguistics.
Washington (D.C.)
Washington (D.C.) > Anacostia.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xi, 228 pages : map ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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