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Signs of Diaspora/Diaspora of Signs: Literacies, Creolization, and Vernacular Practice in African America

Product Description: Challenging monolithic approaches to culture and literacy, this book looks at the roots of African-American reading and writing from the perspective of vernacular activities and creolization. It shows that African-Americans, while readily mastering the conventions and canons of Euro-America, also drew on knowledge of their own to make an oppositional repertoire of signs and meanings...read more

By Grey Gundaker

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9780195107692 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, July 30, 1998, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Challenging monolithic approaches to culture and literacy, this book looks at the roots of African-American reading and writing from the perspective of vernacular activities and creolization.

Paperback:

9780195107708 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 30, 2013, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Challenging monolithic approaches to culture and literacy, this book looks at the roots of African-American reading and writing from the perspective of vernacular activities and creolization.

Talkin That Talk: Language, Culture, and Education in African America

Essays discuss the Ebonics controversy, teaching English to African American students, the influence of the African American oral tradition on language and culture, language education of blacks in other countries, and related topics.

By Geneva Smitherman

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9780415208642 | Routledge, November 1, 1999, cover price $175.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss the Ebonics controversy, teaching English to African American students, the influence of the African American oral tradition on language and culture, language education of blacks in other countries, and related topics.

Paperback:

9780415208659 | Routledge, November 1, 1999, cover price $51.95 | About this edition: Essays discuss the Ebonics controversy, teaching English to African American students, the influence of the African American oral tradition on language and culture, language education of blacks in other countries, and related topics.

Miscellaneous:

9780203065419, titled "Talkin That Talk: Language, Culture and Education in African America" | Routledge, September 1, 2003, cover price $44.95

Language Variety in the South: Perspectives in Black and White

Product Description: Â This volume evolved from a research conference on the English Language in the Southern United States sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and held at Columbia, South Carolina.Â

By Guy Bailey (editor) and Michael Montgomery (editor)

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9780817302443 | Univ of Alabama Pr, February 1, 1986, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Â This volume evolved from a research conference on the English Language in the Southern United States sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and held at Columbia, South Carolina.

Paperback:

9780817311742 | Univ of Alabama Pr, February 1, 2003, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Â This volume evolved from a research conference on the English Language in the Southern United States sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities and held at Columbia, South Carolina.

Beyond Ebonics: Linguistic Pride and Racial Prejudice

By John Baugh

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Hardcover:

9780195120462 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 10, 2000, cover price $115.00

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9780195152890 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 2, 2002, cover price $44.95

Sista, Speak: Black Women Kinfolk Talk About Language and Literacy

Product Description: Honorable Mention, Myers Outstanding Book Award, The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 2003The demand of white, affluent society that all Americans should speak, read, and write "proper" English causes many people who are not white and/or middle class to attempt to "talk in a way that feel peculiar to [their] mind," as a character in Alice Walker's The Color Purple puts it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Sonja L. Lanehart

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9780292747289 | 1 edition (Univ of Texas Pr, May 1, 2002), cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Honorable Mention, Myers Outstanding Book Award, The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 2003The demand of white, affluent society that all Americans should speak, read, and write "proper" English causes many people who are not white and/or middle class to attempt to "talk in a way that feel peculiar to [their] mind," as a character in Alice Walker's The Color Purple puts it.

Paperback:

9780292747296 | 1 edition (Univ of Texas Pr, May 1, 2002), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Honorable Mention, Myers Outstanding Book Award, The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, 2003The demand of white, affluent society that all Americans should speak, read, and write "proper" English causes many people who are not white and/or middle class to attempt to "talk in a way that feel peculiar to [their] mind," as a character in Alice Walker's The Color Purple puts it.

Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English

Product Description: This volume, based on presentations at a 1998 state of the art conference at the University of Georgia, critically examines African American English (AAE) socially, culturally, historically, and educationally. It explores the relationship between AAE and other varieties of English (namely Southern White Vernaculars, Gullah, and Caribbean English creoles), language use in the African American community (e...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Sonja L. Lanehart (editor)

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9781588110459 | John Benjamins Pub Co, November 1, 2001, cover price $195.00 | About this edition: This volume, based on presentations at a 1998 state of the art conference at the University of Georgia, critically examines African American English (AAE) socially, culturally, historically, and educationally.

9789027248855 | John Benjamins Pub Co, October 10, 2001, cover price $195.00 | About this edition: This volume, based on presentations at a 1998 state of the art conference at the University of Georgia, critically examines African American English (AAE) socially, culturally, historically, and educationally.

Paperback:

9789027248862 | John Benjamins Pub Co, October 10, 2001, cover price $83.00

A Study of African-American Vernacular English in America's "Middletown": Evidence of Linguistic Convergence

By Xiaozhao Huang

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Hardcover:

9780773476349 | Edwin Mellen Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $149.95

The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and the Education of African-American Children

By Lisa D. Delpit (editor) and Theresa Perry (editor)

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Miscellaneous:

9780807031469 | Beacon Pr, January 17, 2001, cover price $23.00

Prebinding:

9781439500408 | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, June 26, 2008), cover price $30.00

Black English and the Mass Media

Product Description: From analysis of the mass media, Dr. Brasch develops a major new theory to explain the historical development of Black English, and to present a hypothesis that may explain historical development of genre. Dr. Brasch discusses the sociological, psychological, cultural, historical, linguistic, and journalistic bases of Black English...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Walter M. Brasch

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9780870233357 | Univ of Massachusetts Pr, November 1, 1981, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Based upon a thorough understanding of the evolution of Black English and the development of American Culture, Black English and the Mass Media integrates mass communications / journalism and linguistics within a broad theoretical and historical framework.

Paperback:

9780595143108 | Backinprint.Com, December 1, 2000, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: From analysis of the mass media, Dr.

9780819139788 | Reprint edition (Univ Pr of Amer, September 1, 1984), cover price $31.00 | About this edition: From analysis of the mass media, Dr.

Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English

Recounts the history of Black English, describes its influence on American language and society, and discusses the controversies that have arisen over its teaching and use.

By John R. Rickford and Russell J. Rickford

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9780471323563 | Turner Pub Co, January 1, 2000, cover price $36.50 | About this edition: Recounts the history of Black English, describes its influence on American language and society, and discusses the controversies that have arisen over its teaching and use.

Paperback:

9780471399575 | Turner Pub Co, December 5, 2000, cover price $15.95

Black Talk: Words and Phrases from the Hood to the Amen Corner

A celebration of black dialect and African-American speech patterns parses such words and phrases as 'kitchen,' 'got her nose open,' and 'jump salty'--among many, many others--offering readers an up-to-date reference source to this important linguistic strand of American English. Reprint. (view table of contents)

By Geneva Smitherman

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9780395674109 | Houghton Mifflin, August 1, 1994, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Words and phrases in current use by all segments of the Black community are accompanied by historical information and sentences used to clarify meanings

Paperback:

9780395969199 | Rev upd su edition (Mariner Books, January 19, 2000), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Offers readers an up-to-date reference source to African American English

9780395699928 | Houghton Mifflin, August 1, 1994, cover price $13.00 | also contains G.w. Leibniz: Interrelations Between Mathematics and Philosophy | About this edition: Words and phrases in current use by all segments of the Black community are accompanied by historical information and sentences used to clarify meanings

The English History of African American English

Product Description: Much scholarly work assumes that the structure of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) derives from an earlier plantation creole. This volume explores an alternative hypothesis: that the characteristic features were acquired from the varieties of English to which early speakers were exposed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Shana Poplack (editor)

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9780631212614 | Blackwell Pub, October 1, 1999, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: Much scholarly work assumes that the structure of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) derives from an earlier plantation creole.

Paperback:

9780631212621 | Blackwell Pub, January 28, 2000, cover price $75.95 | About this edition: Much scholarly work assumes that the structure of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) derives from an earlier plantation creole.

African American Vernacular English: Features, Evolution, Educational Implications

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By John R. Rickford

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9780631212447 | Blackwell Pub, May 1, 1999, cover price $70.95

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9780631212454 | Blackwell Pub, July 16, 1999, cover price $66.95

Out of the Mouths of Slaves: African American Language and Educational Malpractice

Product Description: When the Oakland, California, school board called African American English "Ebonics" and claimed that it "is not a black dialect or any dialect of English," they reignited a debate over language, race, and culture that reaches back to the era of slavery in the United States...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By John Baugh

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9780292708723 | Univ of Texas Pr, March 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: When the Oakland, California, school board called African American English "Ebonics" and claimed that it "is not a black dialect or any dialect of English," they reignited a debate over language, race, and culture that reaches back to the era of slavery in the United States.

Paperback:

9780292708730 | Univ of Texas Pr, February 1, 1999, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Winner, A Choice Outstanding Academic Book When the Oakland, California, school board called African American English "Ebonics" and claimed that it "is not a black dialect or any dialect of English," they reignited a debate over language, race, and culture that reaches back to the era of slavery in the United States.

The Struggle and the Tools: Oral and Literate Strategies in an Inner City Community

Product Description: The Struggle and the Tools explores the daily lives and language use of African-American men, women, and children living in an inner city neighborhood. Based on three-and-a-half years of fieldwork, this book presents the oral, literate, and analytical strategies (the tools ) inner city residents use to gain resources, access to social institutions, and respect (the struggle )...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Ellen Cushman

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9780791439814 | State Univ of New York Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $54.50 | About this edition: The Struggle and the Tools explores the daily lives and language use of African-American men, women, and children living in an inner city neighborhood.

Paperback:

9780791439821 | State Univ of New York Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: The Struggle and the Tools explores the daily lives and language use of African-American men, women, and children living in an inner city neighborhood.

The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and the Education of African-American Children

Examines the controversy surrounding Ebonics and education (view table of contents)

By Lisa Delpit and Theresa Perry

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9780807031452 | Beacon Pr, June 17, 1998, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Examines the controversy surrounding Ebonics and education

African-American English: Structure, History, and Use

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By Guy Baile (editor), John Baugh (editor), Salikoko S. Mufwene (editor) and John Rickford (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780415117326 | Routledge, April 1, 1998, cover price $180.00

African-American English: Structure, History, and Usage

By Guy Baile (editor), John Baugh (editor), Salikoko S. Mufwene (editor) and John Rickford (editor)

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9780415117333 | Routledge, April 1, 1998, cover price $69.95

The Ebonics Controversy: Exploring the Roots of an African-American Dialect

In a provocative study of Ebonics, a scholar explores the theory that the language spoken by many African-Americans, particularly those from inner-city communities, has a genetic basis that can be traced to peoples in the Niger-Congo region.

By Frank Heynick

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9781559724272 | Birch Lane Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In a provocative study of Ebonics, a scholar explores the theory that the language spoken by many African-Americans, particularly those from inner-city communities, has a genetic basis that can be traced to peoples in the Niger-Congo region.

The African Heritage of American English

Product Description: The African Heritage of American English provides a detailed compilation of Africanisms, identified linguistically, from a range of sources: folklore, place names, food culture, aesthetics, religion, loan words. Presenting a comprehensive accounting of African words retained from Bantu, Joseph Holloway and Winifred Vass examine the Bantu vocabulary content of the Gullah dialect of the Sea Islands; Black names in the United States; Africanisms of Bantu origin in Black English; Bantu place names in nine southern states; and Africanisms in contemporary American English...read more

By Joseph E. Holloway and Winifred K. Vass

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9780253328380 | Indiana Univ Pr, April 1, 1993, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The African Heritage of American English provides a detailed compilation of Africanisms, identified linguistically, from a range of sources: folklore, place names, food culture, aesthetics, religion, loan words.

Paperback:

9780253211446 | Reprint edition (Indiana Univ Pr, August 1, 1997), cover price $14.95 | also contains Temptation & Twilight | About this edition: The African Heritage of American English provides a detailed compilation of Africanisms, identified linguistically, from a range of sources: folklore, place names, food culture, aesthetics, religion, loan words.

Conventional Functions of Black English in American Literature

Product Description: A stimulating contribution to the present debate over bilingualism and education, Richard Lewis' study provides a thorough analysis of the components and structure of Black English and its paradoxical position as a vernacular in today's culture and literature.

By Richard O. Lewis

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9781880921647 | Austin & Winfield Pub, May 1, 1997, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: A stimulating contribution to the present debate over bilingualism and education, Richard Lewis' study provides a thorough analysis of the components and structure of Black English and its paradoxical position as a vernacular in today's culture and literature.

9781572920330 | Austin & Winfield Pub, June 1, 1996, cover price $51.00

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9781572920323 | Austin & Winfield Pub, September 1, 1996, cover price $24.50 | About this edition: A stimulating contribution to the present debate over bilingualism and education, Richard Lewis' study provides a thorough analysis of the components and structure of Black English and its paradoxical position as a vernacular in today's culture and literature.

9781880921531 | Austin & Winfield Pub, May 1, 1995, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A stimulating contribution to the present debate over bilingualism and education, Richard Lewis' study provides a thorough analysis of the components and structure of Black English and its paradoxical position as a vernacular in today's culture and literature.

You're So Fine, I'd Drink a Tub of Your Bathwater: Over 500 No-Fail Pickup Lines That Work on the Bus, in the Bar, in the Neighborhood Store

The authors of Snaps offer a humorous collection of the best and worst one-line gambits used by men on women, organized into such categories as Bar Lines, Celebrity Lines, and Politically Correct Lines. Original.

By Stephan Dweck, Monteria Ivey and Veronica Webb (introduced by)

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9780786882021 | 1 edition (Hyperion Books, February 1, 1997), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: The authors of Snaps offer a humorous collection of the best and worst one-line gambits used by men on women, organized into such categories as Bar Lines, Celebrity Lines, and Politically Correct Lines.

The Origin of American Black English: Be-Forms in the Hoodoo Texts

By Traute Ewers

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Hardcover:

9783110145861 | Mouton De Gruyter, December 1, 1995, cover price $196.00

Snaps

A collection of five hundred sharp, funny, and creative African-American insults is divided into such categories as Fat, Ugly, Stupid, Poor, Old, Big, Small, and Smelly and features entries from around the country. Original. 100,000 first printing.

By Stephan Dweck, Monteria Ivey and James Percelay

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9780688128968 | Reissue edition (Harpercollins, February 1, 1994), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: A collection of five hundred sharp, funny, and creative African-American insults is divided into such categories as Fat, Ugly, Stupid, Poor, Old, Big, Small, and Smelly and features entries from around the country.

CD/Spoken Word:

9781570422591 | Hachette Audio, April 1, 1995, cover price $16.00

Juba to Jive: A Dictionary of African-American Slang

Contains a comprehensive collection of African-American slang throughout history, including date of arrival into the language, definitions, and cross references

By Clarence Major (editor)

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9780670852642 | Viking Pr, February 1, 1994, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Contains a comprehensive collection of African-American slang throughout history, including date of arrival into the language, definitions, and cross references

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9780140513066 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, February 1, 1994), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Contains a comprehensive collection of African-American slang throughout history, including date of arrival into the language, definitions, and cross references

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