Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.

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."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199812985
• ISBN13: 9780199812981
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"