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Download full textWatkins, 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
Direct linkBall, Arnetha F.; Alim, H. Samy – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2006
For scholars of literacy and educational linguistics, the years 2004 and beyond have given them cause to not only revisit racial issues 50 years after "Brown v. Board of Education," but also to revisit 25 years of language and racial politics since "the Martin Luther King Black English case." This chapter discusses what needs…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Black Dialects, Linguistics, Court Litigation
Baugh, John – Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, 2006
"Brown v. Board of Education" reminds this author, a linguist, of the linguistic diversity among black Americans, be they descendants of enslaved Africans--as he is proud to be--or Africans who escaped slavery. There is as much linguistic diversity among their race as among any other racial or ethnic group in the United States. When the…
Descriptors: African Americans, Equal Education, Racial Segregation, Linguistics
