Geneva Napoleon Smitherman

My Soul Look Back in Wonder (eBook, ePUB)

Memories from a Life of Study, Struggle, and Doin Battle in the Language Wars

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is the story of Dr. Geneva Smitherman, aka "Dr. G," the pioneering linguist often referred to as the "Queen of Black Language." As Dr. G enters her eighth decade, she seeks to share the meaning and purpose of a life of study and struggle and its significance for all those who seek racial and social justice today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000534078
• Artikelnr.: 63272843

Autorenporträt

Dr. Geneva Napoleon Smitherman is University Distinguished Professor Emerita at Michigan State University, USA. A former high school English and Latin teacher in Detroit and a scholar-activist in Black Studies, she has been at the forefront of the struggle for language rights since the 1960s. She is author of six books, including Black Language and Culture (1975), Talkin and Testifyin (1977), Talkin That Talk (2000), and Routledge Linguistics Classic Word from the Mother (2021). She is co-author or editor of ten books, including Articulate While Black (with Dr. H. Samy Alim, 2012).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Plates
Shout-outs
Chapter One Steppin Out on Faith
Chapter Two "When Do You Plan on Getting Married And Starting A Family?"
Chapter Three Quest for Knowledge and Liberation
Chapter Four Who We Be: The Language Wars In And Outside Of The Academy
Chapter Five Doin Battle In The Language Wars: Black Language And The
Academy
Chapter Six Doin Battle In The Language Wars: Black Language And The Law
Chapter Seven Maintaining My Authentic Self
Chapter Eight The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Reparations and Affirmative
Action
Chapter Nine African American Language and Literacy Program and Black
Studies In The Twenty-First Century
Chapter Ten "What Is Africa To Me?": Longing And Looking For Home
Epilogue The Rhyming Tonal Semantics of History
Index