Talkin' Black Talk Language, Education, and Social Change

Name: Talkin' Black Talk Language, Education, and Social Change
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ISBN: 9780807747469

ISBN-10: 0807747467

ISBN-13: 9780807747469

Edition: 2007

Authors: H. Samy Alim, John Baugh, James A. Banks

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This book captures an important moment in the history of language and literacy education and the continuing struggle for equal language rights. Published 50 years after the Brown decision, this volume revisits the difficult and enduring problem of public schools' failure to educate Black children, and revises our approaches to language and literacy learning in today's culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. Bringing together some of the leading scholars in the study of Black language, culture, and education, this book presents creative, classroom-based, hands-on pedagogical approaches (from Hip Hop Culture to the art of teaching narrative reading comprehension) within the context…

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List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Publication date: 12/7/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.15" wide x 8.96" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Poem for Black English



Series Foreword



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Black Language, Education, and Social Change: Continuing the Struggle for Equal Language Rights 50 years After Brown




Language, Literacy, and Liberation



"The Whig Party Don't Exist in My Hood": Knowledge, Reality, and Education in the Hip Hop Nation




The Ebonics Phenomenon, Language Planning, and the Hegemony of Standard English




Developing Academic English for Standard English Learners




The Art and Science of Teaching Narrative Reading Comprehension: An Innovative Approach




Culture, Communication, and Consciousness



The Power of the Rap: The Black Idiom and the New Black Poetry




Sounds Bouncin Off Paper: Black Language Memories and Meditations




African American Communicative Practices: Improvisation, Semantic License, and Augmentation




Toward Linguistic Emancipation



Linguistic Emancipation in Global Perspective




If Our Children Are Our Future, Why Are We Stuck in the Past? Beyond the Anglicists and the Creolists, and Toward Social Change




Mother-Tongue Education and the African Renaissance, with Special Reference to South Africa



Afterword



References


About the Contributors


Index