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... Black America , that is , pushing toward White American culture while simulta- neously pulling away from it ... English in the push toward Americanization of Black English counter- balanced by the pull of retaining its Africanization ...
... Black America , that is , pushing toward White American culture while simulta- neously pulling away from it ... English in the push toward Americanization of Black English counter- balanced by the pull of retaining its Africanization ...
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... black speakers of White English , because of proximity and necessity , commanded the Black English Creole as well . In Beverly Tucker's 1836 novel , The Partisan Leader , this white Southerner distinguished two types of slave speech ...
... black speakers of White English , because of proximity and necessity , commanded the Black English Creole as well . In Beverly Tucker's 1836 novel , The Partisan Leader , this white Southerner distinguished two types of slave speech ...
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... black children use black English , knowing that they will be at yet another disadvantage in an educational system already full of stumbling blocks . It hurts me to sit in lecture halls and hear fellow black students com- plain that the ...
... black children use black English , knowing that they will be at yet another disadvantage in an educational system already full of stumbling blocks . It hurts me to sit in lecture halls and hear fellow black students com- plain that the ...
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Simplicity WILLIAM ZINSSER | 13 |
Freewriting PETER ELBOW | 19 |
Revising Your Own Manuscript | 28 |
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