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The skin that we speak : thoughts on language and culture in the classroom / edited by Lisa Delpit and Joanne Kilgour Dowdy.

Delpit, Lisa D. (Added Author). Dowdy, Joanne Kilgour. (Added Author).
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  • ISBN: 1565845447
  • Physical Description: xxiv, 229 p. ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : New Press, c2002.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-219, 225-226).
Formatted Contents Note: Pt. 1. Language and identity. Ovuh dyuh / Joanne Kilgour Dowdy -- Ebonics : a case history / Ernie Smith -- pt. 2. Language in the classroom. o 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 -- pt. 3. Teacher knowledge. Topsy-turvies : teacher talk and student talk / Herbert Kohl -- Toward a national public policy on language / Geneva Smitherman -- The 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.
Subject: English language > Dialects > Social aspects.
English language > Study and teaching.
Language policy.
Multicultural education.
Native language and education.

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