Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity

by Vershawn Ashanti Young

An engrossing autobiographical exploration of black masculinity as a mode of racial and verbal performance.

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...

• 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"