My soul look back in wonder : memories from a life of study, struggle, and doin battle in the language wars
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My soul look back in wonder : memories from a life of study, struggle, and doin battle in the language wars
Routledge, 2022
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
*With its focus on race, the languaging of race and the feminist experience, this is vital reading at a moment of heightened attention on the issues of systemic racism and sexism
*Both a personal story with wide resonance, written in a highly engaging, conversational and non-academic style which will appeal to the general reader and a major statement on the significance of language in social transformation, this is key reading for courses on African American and African Studies, Cultural Rhetoric, Feminist Studies, Linguistics, Writing and Composition
*A companion piece to both John Rickford's "Transformed" memoir and the reissued classic, "Word from the Mother", this is a vivid personal account and legacy piece from an inspiring activist and hugely influential scholar
Table of Contents
List of Plates
Shout-outs
Chapter One Steppin Out on Faith
Chapter Two "When Do You Plan on Getting Married And Starting A Family?"
Chapter Three Quest for Knowledge and Liberation
Chapter Four Who We Be: The Language Wars In And Outside Of The Academy
Chapter Five Doin Battle In The Language Wars: Black Language And The Academy
Chapter Six Doin Battle In The Language Wars: Black Language And The Law
Chapter Seven Maintaining My Authentic Self
Chapter Eight The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Reparations and Affirmative Action
Chapter Nine African American Language and Literacy Program and Black Studies In The Twenty-First Century
Chapter Ten "What Is Africa To Me?": Longing And Looking For Home
Epilogue The Rhyming Tonal Semantics of History
Index
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