Black English: An Essay Review: A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography of American Black English . Ila Wales Brasch, Walter Milton Brasch. ; English in Black and White . Robbins Burling. ; Black Jargon in White America . David Claerbaut. ; Black English: Its History and Usage in the United States . J. L. Dillard. ; Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel . Alan Dundes. ; The Psychology of Black Language . Jim Haskins, Hugh F. Butts. ; Rappin' and Stylin' Out . Thomas Kochman. ; Language in the Inner City: Studies in the Black English Vernacular . William Labov

Autor: John F. Szwed, Roger D. Abrahams
Rok vydání: 1975
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Zdroj: American Anthropologist. 77:329-335
ISSN: 1548-1433
0002-7294
DOI: 10.1525/aa.1975.77.2.02a00050
Popis: One of the legacies of the various Black Pride movements of the sixties has been the proliferation of books on "Black English." This has been ably and amply documented by the Brasches' fine bibliography. It was not until the scholarly community could conceive of black Americans as having sufficiently distinctive patterns of culture that such studies were carried out or found much of an audience. Before that, of course, black language was commonly accounted for in the same way as other Afro-American behaviors, as evidences of some essential cultural disability. Even the standard work on ethnic continuity and diversity in the United States, Glazer and Moynihan's Beyond the Melting Pot, could not get beyond
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