Chapter 7
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Examples and Resources
| Page # | Callout # | Link | Description |
| 146 | 7.1 | See Suggested Readings | Recommended readings on AAE. |
| 148 | 7.2 | http://www.slavevoyages.org/tast/index.faces | Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database. |
| 151 | 7.3 | http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html | Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938. |
| 151 | 7.4 | a) https://sites.google.com/site/blackenglishhistory/theories-of-origin b) http://web.stanford.edu/~rickford/papers/CreoleOriginsOfAAVE.html |
Theories of the origin of African American English. |
| 159 | 7.5 | http://www.latimes.com/opinion/commentary/la-oe-mcwhorter-black-speech-ax-20140119,0,1054315.story#axzz2qtkIhyDN | "The 'ax' versus 'ask' question," from the LA Times. |
| 159 | 7.6 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsJkCfCPtGI | Video: The Word on Language & Grammar with Anne Curzan. |
| 161 | 7.7 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oehry1JC9Rk | Video: Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Mountaintop speech. |
| 161 | 7.8 | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekltAFvycSk | Video: President Obama’s DNC acceptance speech, 2012. |
| 162 | 7.9 | http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/03/29/specials/baldwin-english.html | James Baldwin's article, "If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?" in the New York Times. |
| 163 | 7.10 | a) http://web.stanford.edu/~rickford/papers/EbonicsInMyBackyard.html b) https://linguistlist.org/topics/ebonics/ebonics-res1.html c) https://www.linguistlist.org/topics/ebonics/ebonics-res2.html d) http://www.linguisticsociety.org/resource/lsa-resolution-oakland-ebonics-issue |
The Oakland Ebonics Controversy: a) John Rickford, "The Ebonics controversy in my backyard: A sociolinguist's experiences and reflections" b) Full text of the original Resolution from the Oakland School Board c) Full text of the amended Resolution from the Oakland School Board d) LSA Resolution on the Oakland "Ebonics" Issue |
| 166 | 7.11 | http://vimeo.com/16885715 | Standard English “translation” of “In Da Club” by 50 Cent. |
Flashcards
Suggested Reading
African American English
Baugh, J. (1983). Black Street Speech. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Green, L. J. (2002). African American English: A linguistic introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Lanehart, S. L., (Ed.). (2009). African American women's language: Discourse, education, and identity. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Mufwene, S. S., J. R. Rickford, G. Bailey, and J. Baugh (Eds.). (1998). African-American English: Structure, history, and use. London: Routledge.
Rickford, J. (1999). African American Vernacular English: Features, evolution, educational implications. Oxford: Blackwell.
Rickford, J. R., & Rickford, R. J. (2000). Spoken soul. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.
Smitherman, G. (1994). Black talk: Words and phrases from the hood to the amen corner.
New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin.
Smitherman, G. (2006). Word from the mother: Language and African Americans. New York, NY: Routledge.
Wolfram, W. (1969). A sociolinguistic description of Detroit Negro speech. Washington, DC: Center for Applied Linguistics.