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Black English: Steppin Up? Lookin Back

By Beverly Jean Smith

Thoughts on the cultural disrespect inherent in much of the criticism of the Ebonics resolution in Oakland, and the struggles of African Americans to cope with such hostility.

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Volume 12, No.1

Fall 1997