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Peer reviewedLippi-Green, Rosina – Black Scholar, 1997
Argues that definition of African American vernacular English is essential for linguists and for nonlinguists who define the language based on their personal relationships to the sociocultural matrix in which it is embedded. There is a need to resolve conflicts about the use of black English in the face of the complexity of responses toward it.…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Dialects, Blacks, Conflict
Peer reviewedMcWhorter, John H. – Black Scholar, 1997
"Ebonics II" is the position that there is no significant gap between black and standard English but that teaching standard English as a foreign language would alleviate the stigma attached to black English. Acknowledging black English and promoting Afrocentric curricula while teaching standard English would overcome the resistance many children…
Descriptors: Afrocentrism, Black Culture, Black Dialects, Cultural Differences
Peer reviewedAbron, JoNina M. – Black Scholar, 1997
Shares the perspectives of a black parent, herself a teacher at a school founded by the Black Panthers, whose daughter was educated in the public schools of Oakland (California) and Kalamazoo (Michigan) between 1986 and 1996. Many negative experiences, some centered around language, are described. (SLD)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Blacks, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Experience
