Research Catalog

Title

The real ebonics debate : power, language, and the education of African-American children / edited by Theresa Perry and Lisa Delpit.

Publication

Boston : Beacon Press, ©1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Perry, Theresa.
• Delpit, Lisa.

Description

xiv, 227 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Old and new treatises on the subject are presented, including writings by Paul Lawrence Dunbar and James Baldwin as well as information surrounding the debate about the Oakland Resolution.

Uniform Title

Rethinking schools.

Subject

• African Americans > Education
• English language > Study and teaching > African American students
• Black English
• African American children > Language
• Language and education > United States
• African American children > Language
• African Americans > Education
• Black English
• English language > Study and teaching > African American students
• Language and education
• Englischunterricht
• Kulturkontakt
• Sprachunterricht
• Kulturkontakt
• Sprachunterricht
• United States
• USA
• Schwärze
• Schwarze
• USA

Note

• "Published in collaboration with Rethinking schools."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p.211-220).

Contents

"I 'on know why they be trippin'" : reflections on the Ebonics debate / Theresa Perry -- What should teachers do? : Ebonics and culturally responsive instruction / Lisa Delpit -- Black English/Ebonics : what it be like? / Geneva Smitherman -- If Ebonics isn't a language, then tell me, what is? (pace James Baldwin, 1979) / Wayne O'Neil -- What is Black English? What is Ebonics? / Ernie Smith -- Holding on to a language of our own : an interview with linguist John Rickford -- If Black English isn't a language, then tell me, what is? / James Baldwin -- Ebonics : myths and realities / Mary Rhodes Hoover -- Embracing Ebonics and teaching Standard English : an interview with Oakland teacher Carrie Secret -- An ante-bellum sermon [poem] ; The seedling [poem] / Paul Laurence Dunbar -- Kitchen poets and classroom books : literature from children's roots / Terry Meier -- "Listen to your students" : an interview with Oakland High School English teacher Hafeezah AdamaDavia Dalji -- Teaching teachers about Black communications / Terry Meier -- Ebonics speakers and cultural, linguistic, and political test bias / Mary Rhodes Hoover -- Removing the mask : roots of oppression through omission / Monique Brinson -- The Oakland Ebonics resolution [full text of the Resolution of the Board of Education Adopting the Report and Recommendations of the African-American Task Force] -- Ebonics resolution revisions -- The Oakland policy statement [Policy Statement of the Oakland School Board that accompanied the original resolution] -- Recommendations of the Task Force on Educating African-American Students -- What is the Standard English Proficiency Program? -- Oakland superintendent responds to critics of the Ebonics Policy / Carolyn Getridge -- Linguistics Society of America Resolution on Ebonics -- "What go round come round" : King in perspective / Geneva Smitherman -- Opening Pandora's box : an interview with Oakland School Board member Toni Cook -- An Oakland student speaks out / Michael Lampkins --Ebonics and the role of the community : an interview with activist Isaac Taggert -- Official language, unofficial reality : acquiring bilingual/bicultural fluency in a segregated southern community / Joyce Hope Scott -- Black English : steppin up? Lookin back / Beverly Jean Smith.

ISBN

• 0807031453
• 9780807031452

LCCN

97046828

OCLC

• ocm38067570
• 38067570
• SCSB-8919855

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library