Articulate While Black

by H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman

Book Overview

Barack Obama is widely considered one of the most powerful and charismatic speakers of our age. Without missing a beat, he often moves between Washington insider talk and culturally Black ways of speaking--as shown in a famous YouTube clip, where Obama declined the change offered to him by a Black cashier in a Washington, D.C. restaurant with the phrase, "Nah, we straight."

In Articulate While Black, two renowned scholars of Black Language...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199812969
• ISBN13: 9780199812967
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"