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The Skin that we speak : thoughts on language and culture in the classroom

Delpit, Lisa D. (Added Author). Dowdy, Joanne Kilgour. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 1565845447
ISBN: 9781595583505 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xxvi, 229 p. ; 21 cm.
Publisher: New York : New Press, c2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-219, 225-226).

Formatted Contents Note:

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.