1st Edition
Black Linguistics Language, Society and Politics in Africa and the Americas
By Arnetha Ball, Sinfree Makoni, Geneva Smitherman, Arthur K. Spears, Foreword by Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Copyright 2003
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
by
Routledge
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Enslavement, forced migration, war and colonization have led to the global dispersal of Black communities and to the fragmentation of common experiences. The majority of Black language researchers explore the social and linguistic phenomena of individual Black communities, without looking at Black experiences outside a given community. This groundbreaking collection re-orders the elitist and... Read more
List of figures and table, Foreword by Ngugi wa Thiong’ o, Introduction: toward Black Linguistics, PART 1 Ideological practices in research on Black languages, PART 2 Conceptualization and status of Black languages, PART 3 Inclusion and exclusion through language, List of contributors, Index
Biography
Sinfree Makoni is Associate Professor in Linguistics, Applied Language Studies and African American Studies at Penn State University, USA. Geneva Smitherman is University Distinguished Professor of English at Michigan State University, USA, and Director of My Brother's Keeper Program in Detroit. Arthur K. Spears is Professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at the City University of New York, USA. Arnetha Ball is Associate Professor of Education at Stanford University, USA.
'This book will be of interest not only to people whose focus is language varieties used by Blacks, but also to those concerned with a critical history of linguistics, to anthropologists and sociolinguists, particularly those working on language policy and planning, variation, and language in education.' - Kay McCormick, University of Cape Town
