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

Publication Info. New York : New Press, [2002]
©2002

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 Moore Stacks  LC201.5 .S55 2002    Available  ---
Description xxiv, 229 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Subject Native language and education.
Native language and education.
English language -- Study and teaching.
English language -- Study and teaching.
English language -- Dialects -- Social aspects.
English language -- Dialects -- Social aspects.
English language -- Dialects.
Multicultural education.
Multicultural education.
Language policy.
Language policy.
Added Author Delpit, Lisa.
Dowdy, Joanne Kilgour.
ISBN 1565845447
9781565845442