Black Linguistics: Language, Society, and Politics in Africa and the AmericasSinfree Makoni Psychology Press, 2003 - 228 pages Enslavement, forced migration, war and colonization have led to the global dispersal of Black communities and to the fragmentation of common experiences. |
Contents
Ideologies of language and socially realistic linguistics | 21 |
We are the streets African American Language and the strategic construction of a street conscious identity | 40 |
Sound and power the language of the Rastafari | 60 |
CONCEPTUALIZATION AND STATUS OF BLACK LANGUAGES | 81 |
Promoting African languages as conveyors of knowledge in educational institutions | 83 |
Language policies and language education in Francophone Africa a critique and a call to action | 103 |
Contradiction or affirmation? The South African language policy and the South African national government | 117 |
From misinvention to disinvention of language multilingualism and the South African Constitution | 132 |
INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION THROUGH LANGUAGE | 153 |
Linguistic profiling | 155 |
Whassup homeboy? Joining the African Diaspora Black English as a symbolic site of identification and language learning | 169 |
US and South African teachers developing perspectives on language and literacy changing domestic and international roles of linguistic gatekeepers | 186 |
Contributors | 215 |
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