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My Soul Look Back in Wonder

Memories from a Life of Study, Struggle, and Doin Battle in the Language Wars

By: Geneva Napoleon Smitherman

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My Soul Look Back in Wonder

Memories from a Life of Study, Struggle, and Doin Battle in the Language Wars

By: Geneva Napoleon Smitherman

This is the story of Dr. Geneva Smitherman, aka "Dr. G," the pioneering linguist often referred to as the "Queen of Black Language." In a series of narrative essays, Dr. G writes eloquently and powerfully about the role of language in social transformation and the academic, intellectual, linguistic, and societal debates that shaped her groundbreaking work as a Black Studies O.G. and a Womanist scholar-activist of African American Language. These eleven essays narrate the development of Dr. G’s race, gender, class, and linguistic consciousness as a member of the Black Power Generation of the 1960s and 70s. In My Soul Look Back In Wonder, Dr. G links the personal to the professional and the political, situating the struggles, and successes, of a Black woman in the Academy within the historical experiences and development of her people. As Dr. G enters her eighth decade, in this Black Lives Matter historical moment, she seeks to share the meaning and purpose of a life of study and struggle and its significance for all those who seek racial and social justice today.

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My Soul Look Back in Wonder

Memories from a Life of Study, Struggle, and Doin Battle in the Language Wars

By: Geneva Napoleon Smitherman

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Memories from a Life of Study, Struggle, and Doin Battle in the Language Wars

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Talkin and Testifyin

The Language of Black America

By: Geneva Smitherman

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The Language of Black America

By: Geneva Smitherman

In this book, Smitherman makes a substantial contribution to an understanding of Black English by setting it in the larger context of Black culture and life style. In her book, Geneva Smitherman makes a substantial contribution to an understanding of Black English by setting it in the larger context of Black culture and life style. In addition to defining Black English, by its distinctive structure and special lexicon, Smitherman argues that the Black dialect is set apart from traditional English by a rhetorical style which reflects its African origins. Smitherman also tackles the issue of Black and White attitudes toward Black English, particularly as they affect educational policy. Documenting her insights with quotes from notable Black historical, literary and popular figures, Smitherman makes clear that Black English is as legitimate a form of speech as British, American, or Australian English.

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310

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Wayne State University Press

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0814318053

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9780814318058

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My Soul Look Back in Wonder

My Soul Look Back in Wonder

My Soul Look Back in Wonder

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