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

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

Lanehart, Sonja L.

Paperback

LinguisticsBlack American StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0292747292
ISBN13: 9780292747296
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Jun 1 2002
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.06 Depth: 9.32
Language: English

2003 - Honorable Mention, Myers Outstanding Book Award - The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America

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 Purple puts it. In this book, Sonja Lanehart explores how this valorization of proper English has affected the language, literacy, educational achievements, and self-image of five African American women-her grandmother, mother, aunt, sister, and herself.

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