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Richardson, Elaine – 1995
A study focused attention on the academic personas acquired by two AAVE-oriented (African American Vernacular English) beginning writers as reflected by their speech in informal settings and the style they employed in academic tasks. The study explores the degree to which literacy experiences (home and school) affect students' lives. It was guided…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Afrocentrism, Basic Writing, Black Culture
Phillip, Mary-Christine – Black Issues in Higher Education, 1992
In an interview, the former president of the University of Notre Dame, Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, discusses prejudice in the Catholic church and Catholic education, Black English, Afrocentricity, school choice, innercity education, progress in civil rights in the United States, and immigration. (MSE)
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Afrocentrism, Black Culture, Black Dialects