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Watkins, Audrey P. – International Journal of Whole Schooling, 2008
This work addresses the politics of speech and language communication with respect to Africans in the Diaspora in Jamaica and in the United States of America. Language hegemony is an expression of the power and control sustained by means of institutions such as schools. Depending on their linguistic choices or situational language use, post…
Descriptors: Social Justice, African Culture, Linguistics, Foreign Countries