The Real Ebonics Debate: Power, Language and the Education of African-American Children

227 s. 15 x 23.

In the winter of 1996, the Oakland school board's resolution recognizing Ebonics as a valid linguistic system generated a brief firestorm of hostile criticism and misinformation, then faded from public consciousness. But in the classrooms of America, the question of how to engage the distinctive language of many African-American children remains urgent. In The Real Ebonics Debate some of our most important educators, linguists, and writers, as well as teachers and students reporting from the field, examine the lessons of the Ebonics controversy and unravel the complex issues at the heart of how America educates its children. "A dynamic collection of high-voltage writings that bring sanity and passion to the great debate about linguistics, class, and race." -Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace "Anyone in the field of education-teacher, administrator, researcher, policy maker-who is seriously concerned with issues of race, class, and the politics of language in Ame

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