Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity

by Vershawn Ashanti Young

In Your Average Nigga, Vershawn Ashanti Young disputes the belief that speaking Standard English and giving up Black English Vernacular helps black students succeed academically. Young argues that this assumption not only exaggerates the differences between two compatible varieties of English but forces black males to choose between an education and their masculinity, by choosing to act either white or black. As one would expect from a scholar...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081433248X
• ISBN13: 9780814332481
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"