Ebonics : the true language of Black folks / edited by Robert L. Williams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Robert L., 1930-2020, editor.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Languages.

African Americans.

English language--Variation--United States.

English language.

English language--Variation.

United States.

Black English.

Americanisms.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xii, 144 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

St. Louis : Institute of Black Studies, [1975]

Contents:

Black English: A Sequential Perspective-Part 1. Commentary; Historical Sketch of Black English / James McGinnis; A Look at Black English / Juanita Williamson; Black Children and the Language Arts: A call for reform / Rudine Sims; Black Language and What to do About It: Some Black community perspectives / Orlando Taylor; Teachers' Attitudes toward Black English / Ann Covington; The Struggle to Know, The Struggle to Survive / Ronald Williams; Black English: Surviving the Bastardization Process / Grace Holt

Ebonics-For What? A Functional Perspective-Part 2. Commentary; Ebonics: A case history / Ernie Smith; Metaphor, Black Discourse Style, and Cultural Reality / Grace Holt; The Effects of Language on the Test Performance of Black Children / Robert L. Williams and L. Wendell Rivers; Developing Cultural Specific Assessment Devices: An empirical rationale / Robert L. Williams; Disentangling the Confusion Surrounding Slang, Nonstandard English, Black English and Ebonics ... Conclusion / Robert L. Williams and Mary Brantley.

Notes:

"Selected from ... papers submitted to a conference" held January 1973 in St. Louis.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.