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Article: The Skin That We Speak: Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom.(Brief Article)
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- Black Issues Book Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 2002
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edited by Lisa Delpit and Joanne Kilgour Dowdy New Press, March 2002 $24.95, ISBN 1-565-84544-7
Generally speaking, language, especially black English or Ebonics, never manages to capture the fancy of the reading public until some renowned linguist or cultural scientist tries to use it as a cockeyed justification for the socioeconomic ills endured by African Americans.
No doubt when Delpit, a MacArthur Fellow and best-selling education author, and Dowdy, the assistant director at the Center of Study of Adult Literacy and assistant professor at Georgia State University, decided to put together a collection of essays assaulting the many myths surrounding ...