My soul look back in wonder memories from a life of study, struggle, and doin battle in the language wars
Steppin out on faith -- "When do you plan on getting married and starting a family?" -- Quest for knowledge and liberation -- Who we be : the language wars in and outside of the academy -- Doin battle in the language wars : Black language and the academy -- Doin battle in the language wars...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London ; New York
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2022
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Steppin out on faith -- "When do you plan on getting married and starting a family?" -- Quest for knowledge and liberation -- Who we be : the language wars in and outside of the academy -- Doin battle in the language wars : Black language and the academy -- Doin battle in the language wars : Black language and the law -- Maintaining my authentic self -- The good, the bad, the ugly : reparations and affirmative action -- African American language and literacy program and Black studies in the twenty-first century -- "What is Africa to me?" : longing and looking for home -- Epilogue. The rhyming tonal semantics of history "This is the story of Dr. Geneva Smitherman, aka "Dr. G," the pioneering linguist often referred to as the "Queen of Black Language." In a series of narrative essays, Dr. G writes eloquently and powerfully about the role of language in social transformation and the academic, intellectual, linguistic, and societal debates that shaped her groundbreaking work as a Black Studies O.G. and a Womanist scholar-activist of African American Language. These eleven essays narrate the development of Dr. G's race, gender, class, and linguistic consciousness as a member of the Black Power Generation of the 1960s and 70s. In My Soul Look Back In Wonder, Dr. G links the personal to the professional and the political, situating the struggles, and successes, of a Black woman in the Academy within the historical experiences and development of her people. As Dr. G enters her eighth decade, in this Black Lives Matter historical moment, she seeks to share the meaning and purpose of a life of study and struggle and its significance for all those who seek racial and social justice today"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | x, 199 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781032080024 978-1-03-208002-4 9781032080017 978-1-03-208001-7 |