Talkin black talk
Subtitle: language, education, and social change
By: edited by H. Samy Alim and John Baugh.
Contributors: Alim, H. Samy.; Baugh, John, 1949-
Series: Multicultural education series; Multicultural education series (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9780807747469; 9780807747476
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
Other titles: Talking black talk.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-175) and index.
Table of contents: title: "The Whig Party don't exist in my hood": knowledge, reality, and education in the hip hop nation / H. Samy Alim; title: The ebonics phenomenon, language planning, and the hegemony of standard English / Charles E. DeBose; title: Developing academic English for standard English learners / Noma LeMoine and Sharroky Hollie; title: The art and science of teaching narrative reading comprehension: an innovative approach / Angela Rickford; title: The power of the rap: the black idiom and the new black poetry / Geneva Smitherman; title: Sounds bouncin off paper: black language memories and meditations / Sonia Sanchez; title: African American communicative practices: improvisation, semantic license, and augmentation / Arthur K. Spears; title: Linguistic emancipation in global perspective / John Baugh and Geneva Smitherman; title: 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; title: Mother-tongue education and the African renaissance, with special  reference to South Africa / Neville Alexander.