Black linguistics : language, society, and politics in Africa and the Americas / / edited by Sinfree Makoni ... [et al.] ; foreword by Ngugi wa Thiongo.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Makoni, Sinfree.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xii, 228 p. :; ill.
• Notes: Errata sheet laid in.

Table of Contents

Ideologies of language and socially realistic linguistics / Donald Winford -- "We are the streets" : African American language and the strategic construction of a street conscious identity / H. Samy Alim -- Sound and power : the language of the Rastafari / Velma Pollard -- Promoting African languages as conveyors of knowledge in educational institutions / Zaline M. Roy-Campbell -- Language policies and language education in francophone Africa : a critique and a call to action / Hassana Alidou -- Contradiction or affirmation? The South African language policy and the South African national government / Nkhelebeni Phaswana -- From misinvention to disinvention of language : multilingualism and the South African constitution / Sinfree Makoni -- Linguistic profiling / John Baugh -- "Whassup, homeboy?" Joining the African Diaspora : black English as a symbolic site of identification and language learning / Awad el Karim M. Ibrahim -- US and South African teachers' developing perspectives on language and literacy : changing domestic and international roles of linguistic gate-keepers / Arnetha F. Ball.