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Tables of Contents for The Real Ebonics Debate
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
PREFACE
ix
2
FOREWORD
xi
 
1. INTRODUCTIONS
3
26
"I 'on Know Why They Be Trippin'": Reflections on the Ebonics Debate
3
14
Theresa Perry
What Should Teachers Do? Ebonics and Culturally Responsive Instruction
17
12
Lisa Delpit
2. WHAT IS EBONICS?
29
50
Black English/Ebonics: What It Be Like?
29
9
Geneva Smitherman
If Ebonics Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? (pace James Baldwin, 1979)
38
11
Wayne O'Neil
What Is Black English? What Is Ebonics?
49
10
Ernie Smith
Holding on to a Language of Our Own: An Interview with Linguist John Rickford
59
8
If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?
67
4
James Baldwin
Ebonics: Myths and Realities
71
8
Mary Rhodes Hoover
3. CLASSROOM IMPLICATIONS
79
64
Embracing Ebonics and Teaching Standard English: An Interview with Oakland Teacher Carrie Secret
79
10
An Ante-Bellum Sermon
89
4
Paul Laurence Dunbar
The Seedling
93
1
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Kitchen Poets and Classroom Books: Literature from Children's Roots
94
10
Terry Meier
"Listen to Your Students": An Interview with Oakland High School English Teacher Hafeezah AdamaDavia Dalji
104
13
Teaching Teachers about Black Communications
117
9
Terry Meier
Ebonics Speakers and Cultural, Linguistic, and Political Test Bias
126
8
Mary Rhodes Hoover
Removing the Mask: Roots of Oppression Through Omission
134
9
Monique Brinson
4. THE OAKLAND RESOLUTION
143
46
The Oakland Ebonics Resolution
143
3
Ebonics Resolution Revisions
146
2
The Oakland Policy Statement
148
3
Recommendations of the Task Force on Educating African-American Students
151
3
What Is the Standard English Proficiency Program?
154
2
Oakland Superintendent Responds to Critics of the Ebonics Policy
156
4
Carolyn Getridge
Linguistics Society of America Resolution on Ebonics
160
3
"What Go Round Come Round": King in Perspective
163
9
Geneva Smitherman
Opening Pandora's Box: An Interview with Oakland School Board Member Toni Cook
172
9
An Oakland Student Speaks Out
181
1
Michael Lampkins
Ebonics and the Role of Community: An Interview with Activist Isaac Taggert
182
7
5. PERSONAL ESSAYS
189
16
Official Language, Unofficial Reality: Acquiring Bilingual/Bicultural Fluency in a Segregated Southern Community
189
8
Joyce Hope Scott
Black English: Steppin Up? Lookin Back
197
8
Beverly Jean Smith
RESOURCES ON EBONICS
205
3
CLARIFYING TERMINOLOGY
208
3
NOTES AND REFERENCES
211
10
CONTRIBUTORS
221
3
CREDITS
224
2
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
226