Sista, Speak!: Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy

by Sonja L. Lanehart

Book Overview

2003 - Honorable Mention, Myers Outstanding Book Award - The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America

The demand of white, affluent society that all Americans should speak, read, and write "proper" English causes many people who are not white and/or middle class to attempt to "talk in a way that feel peculiar to their] mind," as a character in Alice Walker's The Color Purple puts it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292747292
• ISBN13: 9780292747296
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"