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The skin that we speak : thoughts on language and culture in the classroom

Title
The skin that we speak : thoughts on language and culture in the classroom / edited by Lisa Delpit and Joanne Kilgour Dowdy.
Publication
New York : New Press, c2002.

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Additional Authors
  • Delpit, Lisa
  • Dowdy, Joanne Kilgour
Description
xxiv, 229 p.; 25 cm.
Subject
  • Native language and education
  • Black English
  • English language > Study and teaching
  • English language > Dialects > Social aspects
  • Multicultural education
  • Language policy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-219, 225-226).
Contents
Ovuh dyuh / Joanne Kilgour Dowdy -- Ebonics : a case history / Ernie Smith -- No kinda sense / Lisa Delpit -- Trilingualism / Judith Baker -- Some basic sociolinguistic concepts / Michael Stubbs -- Language, culture, and the assessment of African American children / Asa G. Hilliard III -- I ain't writin' nuttin' : permission to fail and demands to succeed in urban classrooms / Gloria J. Ladson-Billings -- " --as soon as she opened her mouth!" : issues of language, literacy, and power / Victoria Purcell-Gates -- Topsy-turvies : teacher talk and student talk / Herbert Kohl -- Toward a national public policy on language / Geneva Smitherman -- The clash of "common senses" : two African American women become teachers / Shuaib Meacham -- "We don't tal right. You ask him" / Joan Wynne -- Appendix: Linguistic Society of America resolution on the Oakland "ebonics" issue.
Call Number
JFE 02-3813
ISBN
1565845447
LCCN
2001044113
OCLC
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Title
The skin that we speak : thoughts on language and culture in the classroom / edited by Lisa Delpit and Joanne Kilgour Dowdy.
Imprint
New York : New Press, c2002.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-219, 225-226).
Added Author
Delpit, Lisa.
Dowdy, Joanne Kilgour.
Research Call Number
JFE 02-3813
Sc E 02-399
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