Sista, speak! : Black women kinfolk talk about language and literacy /

The demand of white, affluent society that all Americans should speak, read, and write "proper" English causes many people who are not white and/or middle class to attempt to "talk in a way that feel peculiar to [their] mind," as a character in Alice Walker's The Color Purpl...

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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Lanehart, Sonja L.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002.
Subjects:	African American women > Social conditions. African American women > Education. Literacy > Social aspects > United States. African American women > Biography. African Americans > Race identity. African Americans > Languages. Language and culture > United States.
Online Access:	Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:	0292798385 9780292798380 9780292747289 0292747284 9780292747296 0292747292
Local Note:	ProQuest Ebook Central