Foreword. Acknowledgments. Part One: Introduction. 1 What's Going On? Part Two: "This Passion, This Skill, This Incredible Music" 2 Writers. 3 Preachers and Pray-ers. 4 Comedians and Actors. 5 Singers, Toasters, and Rappers. Part Three: The Living Language. 6 Vocabulary and Pronunciation. 7 Grammar. 8 History. Part Four: The Ebonics Firestorm. 9 Education. 10 The Media. 11 Ebonics "Humor" Part Five: The Double Self. 12 The Crucible of Identity. Notes. Index. Permissions and Credits.
JOHN R. RICKFORD is the Martin Luther King Jr. Centennial Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University. He lives in Palo Alto, California. RUSSELL J. RICKFORD, a former reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer, lives in Philadelphia.
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