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| Preface | ||
| Foreword | ||
| "I'on Know Why They Be Trippin'": Reflections on the Ebonics Debate | 3 | |
| What Should Teachers Do? Ebonics and Culturally Responsive Instruction | 17 | |
| Black English/Ebonics: What It Be Like? | 29 | |
| If Ebonics Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? (pace James Baldwin, 1979) | 38 | |
| What Is Black English? What Is Ebonics? | 49 | |
| Holding on to a Language of Our Own: An Interview with Linguist John Rickford | 59 | |
| If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? | 67 | |
| Ebonics: Myths and Realities | 71 | |
| Embracing Ebonics and Teaching Standard English: An Interview with Oakland Teacher Carrie Secret | 79 | |
| An Ante-Bellum Sermon | 89 | |
| The Seedling | 93 | |
| Kitchen Poets and Classroom Books: Literature from Children's Roots | 94 | |
| "Listen to Your Students": An Interview with Oakland High School English Teacher Hafeezah AdamaDavia Dalji | 104 | |
| Teaching Teachers about Black Communications | 117 | |
| Ebonics Speakers and Cultural, Linguistic, and Political Test Bias | 126 | |
| Removing the Mask: Roots of Oppression Through Omission | 134 | |
| The Oakland Ebonics Resolution | 143 | |
| Ebonics Resolution Revisions | 146 | |
| The Oakland Policy Statement | 148 | |
| Recommendations of the Task Force on Educating African-American Students | 151 | |
| What Is the Standard English Proficiency Program? | 154 | |
| Oakland Superintendent Responds to Critics of the Ebonics Policy | 156 | |
| Linguistics Society of America Resolution on Ebonics | 160 | |
| "What Go Round Come Round": King in Perspective | 163 | |
| Opening Pandora's Box: An Interview with Oakland School Board Member Toni Cook | 172 | |
| An Oakland Student Speaks Out | 181 | |
| Ebonics and the Role of Community: An Interview with Activist Isaac Taggert | 182 | |
| Official Language, Unofficial Reality: Acquiring Bilingual/Bicultural Fluency in a Segregated Southern Community | 189 | |
| Black English: Steppin Up? Lookin Back | 197 | |
| Resources on Ebonics | 205 | |
| Clarifying Terminology | 208 | |
| Notes and References | 211 | |
| Contributors | 221 | |
| Credits | 224 | |
| Acknowledgments | 226 |
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Liza Macfadden
reviewed The Real Ebonics Debate on August 15, 2007
The Real Ebonics Debate
I heard about the Ebonics debate when I was younger but never really understood it. Like a lot of people, I assumed that some school system out in California had resolved to stop teaching black children Standard English and teach them Ebonics, instead. I also mistakenly thought that Ebonics was some sort of slang or sloppy English.
This book, a series of essays, interviews, and documents, tackles all of those misperceptions and prejudices and gets to the root of the Ebonics debate. The authors explain what Ebonics is (they argue that it is a distinct language with Pan-African origins), what the Oakland resolution really said (that the school system should recognize Ebonics as a language and therefore teach children who spoke it using aspects of culturally-sensitive bilingual Standard English instruction), and how the debate was twisted by careless and racist reporting.
Whether or not you agree with the assertion that Ebonics is a distinct language, this book is a fascinating look at a debate that got a lot of attention a few years ago and continues to be relevant today. It is obviously really one-sided (so the word "debate" in the title is a bit misleading), but it's clear, easy to read, and really informative. I learned a lot from this book.
Highly recommended.
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