Black English: Its History and Usage in the United States"This book attempts to investigate the important and interesting ways in which Black English, the language of about eighty percent of Americans of African Ancestry, differs from other varieties of American English ... According to my thesis, differences from other English dialects are traceable to normal historical factors, specifically to language-contact phenomena associated with the West African slave trade and with European maritime expansion in general, and to survivals from West African languages"--From foreword. |
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Black English and the Academic Establishment | 3 |
On the Structure of Black English | 39 |
A Sketch of the History of Black English | 73 |
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