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Peer reviewedMahiri, Jabari – Journal of Negro Education, 1991
Presents initial findings in a study of language use by preadolescent African-American male participants in a neighborhood sponsored Youth Basketball Association. Using data collected over a 30-month period in Chicago (Illinois), the study takes an ethnographic approach for exploring communicative competencies in oral and written language. (JB)
Descriptors: Basketball, Black Dialects, Black Youth, Blacks
