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List of illustrations | |
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Preface | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Introduction: From Ghetto Lady to Critical Linguist | |
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Ebonics, Language Theory, and Research | |
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Introduction to part one | |
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Introduction to Ebonics | |
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From African to African American | |
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White English in Blackface, Or, Who Do I Be? | |
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Discriminatory Discourse on African American Speech | |
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"A New Way of Talkin'": Language, Social Change, and Political Theory | |
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Review of Noam Chomsky's Language and Responsibility | |
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Language and the Education of African Americans | |
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Introduction to part two | |
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English Teacher, Why You Be Doing the Thangs You Don't Do? | |
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"What Go Round Come Round": King in Perspective | |
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Ebonics, King, and Oakland: Some Folk Don't Believe Fat Meat is Greasy | |
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African American Student Writers in the NAEP, 1969-88/89 and "The Blacker the Berry, the Sweeter the Juice" | |
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Language and Culture | |
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Introduction to part three | |
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"How I Got Ovuh": African World View and African American Oral Tradition | |
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"If I'm Lyin, I'm Flyin": The Game of Insult in Black Language | |
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"Makin a Way Outa No Way": The Proverb Tradition in the Black Experience | |
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Testifyin, Sermonizin, and Signifyin: Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the African American Verbal Tradition | |
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"The Chain Remain the Same": Communicative Practices in the Hip Hop Nation | |
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Language Policy, Politics, and Power | |
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Introduction to part four | |
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African Americans and "English Only" | |
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The "Mis-Education of the Negro" - and You Too | |
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Language and Democracy in the USA and the RSA | |
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Review of Multilingual Education for South Africa | |
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Columns | |
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Introduction to part five | |
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Soul 'N Style | |
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Black English: So Good It's "Bad" | |
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"Still I Rise": Education Against the Odds in Cuba | |
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The Struggle Continues | |
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CCCC and the "Students' Right To Their Own Language" | |
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Notes | |
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References | |
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Published by the author | |