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Peer reviewedJackson, Blyden – Change, 1976
J. L. Dillard's contention that Black English is a language unto itself spoken by 80 percent of American blacks is argued by a black professor of English who notes the correlation between an individual's destiny in competitive American society and that individual's destiny in competitive American society and that individual's powers of…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Blacks, Cultural Context, English
