A look at the politics of language instruction for students of colour. A fresh, cutting-edge work, The Skin that We Speak takes the discussion of language in the classroom beyond the highly-charged war of idioms - in which English only' means standard English only - and provides...
"Lucid, accessible" research on classroom language bias for educators and "parents concerned about questions of power and control in public schools" (Publishers Weekly). In this collection of twelve essays, MacArthur Fellow Lisa Delpit and Kent State University...