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Claudia Mitchell-Kernan joined the faculty at UCLA in 1973 and remained there for nearly four decades. This chapter explores significant aspects of her academic career. She conducted her early sociolinguistic research on African Americans in Northern California, concluding that Black English is rule governed and a variant of standard English. As dean of the UCLA Graduate School, she created a national model for achieving diversity in graduate education. While graduate dean, she collaborated with social psychologist M. Belinda Tucker in conducting quantitative research in marriage and family studies on marriage patterns of a variety of racial and ethnic groups in Southern California. |
