Book Review: Language in African American Communities

Baker-Bell April . 2020. Linguistic justice: Black language, literacy, identity, and pedagogy. New York, NY: Routledge.

Cornelius Brianna R. Barrett Rusty . 2020. “You met my ambassador”: Language and self-monitoring at the intersection of race and sexuality. In Alim H. Samy Reyes Angela Kroskrity Paul V. (eds.), The Oxford handbook of language and race, 315–341. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Green Lisa J. 2002. African American English: A linguistic introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Green Lisa J. 2011. Language and the African American child. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

miles-hercules deandre . 2022. The real tea: Language at the intersections. In Hall Kira Barrett Rusty (eds.), The Oxford handbook of language and sexuality (online edition). New York, NY: Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190212926.013.70.

Newkirk-Turner Brandi L. Green Lisa J. 2016. Third person singular -s and event marking in child African American English. Linguistic Variation 16(1). 103-130.

Rickford John R. Rickford Russell J. 2000. Spoken soul: The story of Black English. New York, NY: Wiley.

Severo Cristine Gorski Makoni Sinfree . 2020. African languages, race, and colonialism: The case of Brazil and Angola. In Alim H. Samy Reyes Angela Kroskrity Paul V. (eds.), The Oxford handbook of language and race, 153-166. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

Smalls Krystal A. 2019. Languages of liberation: Digital discourses of emphatic blackness. In Avineri Netta Graham Laura R. Johnson Eric J. Riner Robin Conley Rosa Jonathan (eds.), Language and social justice in practice, 52–60. New York, NY: Routledge.

Smitherman Geneva . 1998. “Dat teacher be hollin at us”: What is Ebonics? TESOL Quarterly 32(1). 139-143.

Washington Adrienne R. 2020. ‘Reclaiming my time’: Signifying, reclamation and the activist strategies of Black women’s language. Gender and Language 14(4). 358-385.

Washington Adrienne R. 2023. Semantic and semiotic flows: Examining variations and changes of “the N-words” within an indexical field of dynamic meanings. Atlantic Studies. doi:10.1080/14788810.2023.2235204.