Black linguistics
Subtitle: language, society, and politics in Africa and the Americas
By: edited by Sinfree Makoni ... [et al.] ; foreword by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo.
Contributors: Makoni, Sinfree.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Blacks -- Languages.; Sociolinguistics -- Africa.; Sociolinguistics -- America.
Description: "Written exclusively by Black scholars on behalf of, and in collaboration with local communities, the book looks at the commonalities and differences among Black speech communities in Africa and the Diaspora. Topics include: * the OJ Simpson trial * language issues in Southern Africa and Francophone West Africa * the language of Hip Hop * the language of the Rastafaria in Jamaica With a foreword by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, this is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the linguistic implications of colonization."--Publisher's description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of contents: title: Ideologies of language and socially realistic linguistics / Donald Winford; title: "We are the streets" : African American language and the strategic construction of a street conscious identity / H. Samy Alim; title: Sound and power : the language of the Rastafari / Velma Pollard; title: Promoting African languages as conveyors of knowledge in educational institutions / Zaline M. Roy-Campbell; title: Language policies and language education in francophone Africa : a critique and a call to action / Hassana Alidou; title: Contradiction or affirmation? The South African language policy and the South African national government / Nkhelebeni Phaswana; title: From misinvention to disinvention of language : multilingualism and the South African constitution / Sinfree Makoni; title: Linguistic profiling / John Baugh; title: "Whassup, homeboy?" Joining the African Diaspora : black English as a symbolic site of identification and language learning / Awad el Karim M. Ibrahim; title: US and South African teachers' developing perspectives on language and literacy : changing domestic and international roles of linguistic gate-keepers / Arnetha F. Ball.