Black linguistics :  language, society, and politics in Africa and the Americas / 
edited by Sinfree Makoni ... [et al.] ; foreword by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo. 
 - London ;  New York :  Routledge,  2003. 
 - xii, 228 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Errata sheet laid in. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Ideologies of language and socially realistic linguistics / Donald Winford -- "We are the streets" : African American language and the strategic construction of a street conscious identity / H. Samy Alim -- Sound and power : the language of the Rastafari / Velma Pollard -- Promoting African languages as conveyors of knowledge in educational institutions / Zaline M. Roy-Campbell -- Language policies and language education in francophone Africa : a critique and a call to action / Hassana Alidou -- Contradiction or affirmation? The South African language policy and the South African national government / Nkhelebeni Phaswana -- From misinvention to disinvention of language : multilingualism and the South African constitution / Sinfree Makoni -- Linguistic profiling / John Baugh -- "Whassup, homeboy?" Joining the African Diaspora : black English as a symbolic site of identification and language learning / Awad el Karim M. Ibrahim -- US and South African teachers' developing perspectives on language and literacy : changing domestic and international roles of linguistic gate-keepers / Arnetha F. Ball. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415261376 0415261384 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004541030 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Blacks--Languages.<br/>Sociolinguistics--Africa.<br/>Sociolinguistics--America.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>P40.5  / BLA 2003 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.44/089/96