Talkin Black Talk: Language, Education, and Social Change

by Geneva Smitherman and John Baugh

Talkin Black Talk captures an important moment in the history of language and literacy education and the continuing struggle for equal language rights. Published 50 years after the Brown decision, this volume revisits the difficult and enduring problem of public schools? failure to educate Black children and revises our approaches to language and literacy learning in today's culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. Bringing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807747467
• ISBN13: 9780807747469
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.0"