Black Linguistics: Language, Society and Politics in Africa and the Americas Book

	List of figures and table
	Foreword
	Introduction: toward Black Linguistics	1
1	Ideologies of language and socially realistic linguistics	21
2	"We are the streets": African American Language and the strategic construction of a street conscious identity	40
3	Sound and power: the language of the Rastafari	60
4	Promoting African languages as conveyors of knowledge in educational institutions	83
5	Language policies and language education in Francophone Africa: a critique and a call to action	103
6	Contradiction or affirmation? The South African language policy and the South African national government	117
7	From misinvention to disinvention of language: multilingualism and the South African Constitution	132
8	Linguistic profiling	155
9	"Whassup, homeboy?" Joining the African Diaspora: Black English as a symbolic site of identification and language learning	169
10	US and South African teacher's developing perspectives on languages and literacy: changing domestic and international roles of linguistic gate-keepers	186
	List of contributors	215
	Index	221