Speech Communication for the Black American

Abstract

As a black professional, Mrs. Holt believes that emphasis on "black identity" must be our first order of business in high school speech courses. But she rejects the proposition that the black student become highly skilled only in black communication. Rather, she advo cates building a repertoire of communication devices his own culture does not provide, in the hope that a process of mutual linguistic accommodation may produce a language adopted as "ours" in both white and black cultures.