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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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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
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One: THE NARRATIVES: Peculiar to Your Mind
  • 1: OUR LANGUAGE, OUR SELVES
  • 2: MAYA: It Doesn't Bother Me
  • 3: GRACE: I Always Wondered If My Life Would Have Been Different If
  • 4: REIA: Searching for My Place
  • 5: DEIDRA: A Mother's Love Is the Greatest Love of All
  • 6: SONJA: I Had to Do What I Wanted to Do
  • Part Two: THE ANALYSES: Surreality
  • 7: MAYA: I'm Comfortable Like I Am
  • 8: GRACE: If I Could've Gotten into a Trade School
  • 9: REIA: I Am Proud of Myself
  • 10: DEIDRA: I Was Hiding. I Didn't Know. I Was Scared.
  • 11: SONJA: I Had a Positive Experience
  • THE REST OF THE STORY
  • Appendix 1: Participants' Possible Selves Data
  • Appendix 2: Participants' Speech Samples Data
  • Appendix 3: Participants' Language and Literacy Ideologies Data
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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