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The skin that we speak : thoughts on language and culture in the classroom
- Title
- The skin that we speak : thoughts on language and culture in the classroom / edited by Lisa Delpit and Joanne Kilgour Dowdy.
- Publication
- New York : New Press, ©2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | LC201.5 .S55 2002 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxiv, 229 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Essays explore dialects in the classroom and the link between language and identity and language and cultural conflict.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-219, 225-226).
- Contents
- Language and identity : Ovuh dyuh / Joanne Kilgour Dowdy -- Ebonics : a case history / Ernie Smith -- Language in the classroom : No kinda sense / Lisa Delpit -- Trilingualism / Judith Baker -- Some basic sociolinguistic concepts / Michael Stubbs -- Language, culture, and the assessment of African American children / Asa G. Hilliard III -- I ain't writin' nuttin' : permissions to fail and demands to succeed in urban classrooms / Gloria J. Ladson-Billings -- As soon as she opened her mouth!" : issues of language, literacy, and power / Victoria Purcell-Gates -- Teacher knowledge : Topsy-turvies : teacher talk and student talk / Herbert Kohl -- Toward a national public policy on language / Geneva Smitherman -- class of "common senses : two African American women become teachers / Shuaib Meacham -- We don't talk right. You ask him : Joan Wynne -- Appendix : Linguistic Society of America resolution on the Oakland "ebonics" issue.
- ISBN
- 1565845447
- 9781565845442
- 1565848209
- 9781565848207
- LCCN
- 2001044113
- OCLC
- ocm47271553
- 47271553
- SCSB-8905524
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library