ERIC Number: EJ1253929
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020
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"We Been Knowin": Toward an Antiracist Language & Literacy Education
Baker-Bell, April
Journal of Language and Literacy Education, v16 n1 Spr 2020
This essay asserts the importance for English/Language Arts educators to become conversant with the features of Black Language and the cultural and historical foundations of this speech genre as a rule-bound, grammatically consistent pattern of speech. These features go beyond grammar to include such conventions as a reliance on storytelling as a means of communicating ideas. The author proposes a set of issues for educators to consider so that they may produce antiracist scholarship, praxis, and knowledge that work toward transformation and social change in service of addressing racial, cultural, and linguistic inequities in language and literacy education. The essay concludes with ten framing ideas for generating an antiracist Black Language Pedagogy in order to produce a society founded on respect and appreciation for the historical, cultural, political, and racial underpinnings of Black Language.
Descriptors: English Teachers, Black Dialects, Language Patterns, Grammar, Communication Skills, Racial Discrimination, Racial Attitudes, Social Change, Critical Theory, Media Literacy, African Americans, African American Culture, African American Attitudes, Social Media, English Instruction, Multicultural Education
Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of Georgia. 315 Aderhold Hall, Athens, GA 30602. Tel: 706-542-7866; Fax: 706-542-3817; e-mail: jolle@uga.edu; Web site: http://jolle.coe.uga.edu
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Audience: Teachers
Language: English
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