Resources on
African American English
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General resources on African American
English Links related to African American English and education |
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General resources on African American English A basic introduction to African
American Vernacular English Black English – Lecture
notes compiled by Joycelyn Landrum-Brown The AFAMLANGUAGE
archives Bibliographies
on Ebonics and the description of
African American English University of
Massachusetts African American English
homepage – Site for a research project on the language and speech of
African American children She Talkded the Talk and Walkded the Walk:
Convergence of Sound and Meaning in AAVE Language and Culture Mary B.
Zeiglerat Georgia State University |
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Links related to African American English and education LINGUIST List Ebonics
Topics page Excerpts from The
real Ebonics debate: Power, language and the education of African
American children from the editors of Rethinking Schools: An Urban
Educational Journal The Ebonics Page A
collection of resources by David Sheridan A list of Ebonics
resources from a course at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Ebonics
resources list from Michael Pemberton’s Descriptive English Grammar
course at the University of Illinois includes a collection of excerpts from op-ed pieces. Links related to Ebonics from the Center for Applied
Linguistics |
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Links related to the Ebonics controversy CAL statement on Ebonics Original
Oakland Resolution(January 15, 1997) Revised
Oakland Resolution(December 18, 1996) The
Conference on College
Composition and Communication statement on the Ebonics controversy see
also the earlier Students’
Right to the Own Language Policy
statement on African American English from TESOL (Teachers of English to
Speakers of Other Languages) |
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Geneva Smitherman’s homepage John Rickford’s homepage
including writings on Ebonics
and the homepage for his course on
African American Vernacular English John Baugh’s pages on the
Ebonics controversy see also housing discrimination William
Labov’s congressional testimony on Ebonics |
Some resources on African American Literature
Harlem
Renaissance: Women Writersfrom Northern Kentucky University W.E.B. Du Bois Virtual
University Toni Morrison in
the Nobel Prize winners at e-museum African American literature book club Zora Neale Hurston page contains excerpt from
TEWWG James
Weldon Johnson page from Modern American Poetry site at UIllinois Annika’s Alice
Walker page – best resource on Walker’s Site
dedicated to August
Wilson includes audio files from performances Classic
AA fiction – collection of e-texts from “Multi-cultural paths” at the UVA
School of education On-line e-texts by AA
authors from the internet school library Voices in the gap – from U Minn on
african american women writers Former Slaves
Narratives an on-line anthology of narratives collected from former
slaves by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930’s at the University
of Virginia |