This book discusses the special jargon used by black people in the United States. In the first two chapters the author, a white man, discusses his personal experiences with the black community in order to establish an argument for the need for more awareness of what black jargon is and how it is used. Chapter three proposes that standard English…

Describing an inservice program designed to familiarize White teachers with Black student dialect, this article presents an inservice outline that includes the following: program purpose; objectives; program sequence (information phase, fact finding phase, data correlation and recording phase, and evaluation phase). (JC)

Discusses some ramifications of the Conference on College Composition and Communication's resolution on "Students' Right to Their Own Language." (DD)

Presents four essays disagreeing with Farrell's efforts to refute Arthur R. Jensen's genetic explanation of Blacks' lower scores on IQ tests. Presents Farrell's response to these essays. (HTH)

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…

Teachers can encourage literacy best by understanding and respecting black dialect, and by helping youngsters translate their many different experiences into standard English. (Author)

Explores the history of the study of Black English and the history of researchers' and teachers' attitudes towards Black English and its study. (RB)

The author discusses the linguistic dispute of Black English, or Black Idiom vs. Standard English and argues for the acceptance of the former. (MM)

Maintains that the concept of verbal deprivation'' constituting an integral part of the operating assumption of Sesame Street'' has been thoroughly refuted by reputed liguists; that nonstandard'' English is not an inept, deficient approximation of American English but a separate, logical, and highly structured system of communication. (RJ)

Defining bidialectalism as a movement in education systematically to render lower-class students able to speak both their native dialect and standard English, the author states his purpose to indicate why this attempt to change people should be rejected. (Author/JB)

Outlines a procedure for introducing Negro college pre-freshmen to such new cultural experiences as the opera. (JM)