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The Politics of Syntax

Peer reviewed

Kozol, Jonathan – English Journal, 1975

The society's and the school's obsessive avoidance of conflict and insistence that "there are two sides to every issue" deadens students to outrage and injustice. (JH)

Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Democratic Values, Discourse Analysis, Discussion (Teaching Technique)

Writing a Rationale for a Controversial Common Reading Book: Alice Walker's "The Color Purple."

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Worthington, Pepper – English Journal, 1985

Offers a rationale that can be used to defend the assignment of Alice Walker's controversial novel for class reading. Indicates four issues that might evoke calls for censorship: (1) subject matter, (2) vocabulary, (3) grammar, and (4) the epistolary form of the work. (RBW)

Descriptors: Black Dialects, Censorship, Conflict, Conflict Resolution