Sista, Speak! : : Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy /

Sista, Speak! : : Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy / / Sonja L. Lanehart.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Lanehart, Sonja L.,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]
©2002
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One. THE NARRATIVES
  • 1. OUR LANGUAGE, OUR SELVES
  • 2. MAYA
  • 3. GRACE
  • 4. REIA
  • 5. DEIDRA
  • 6. SONJA
  • Part Two. THE ANALYSES
  • 7. MAYA
  • 8. GRACE
  • 9. REIA
  • 10. DEIDRA
  • 11. SONJA
  • 12. 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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