The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and the Education of African-American Children by Theresa Perry, Lisa Delpit

The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language, and the Education of African-American Children

Theresa Perry, Lisa Delpit

242 pages 1998

2 editions

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In the winter of 1996, the Oakland school board's resolution recognizing Ebonics as a valid linguistic system generated a brief firestorm of hostile criticism and misinformation, then faded from public consciousness. But in the classrooms of Ameri...

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