Sonja L Lanehart: 1 book
Sista, Speak!
Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The demand of white, affluent society that all Americans should speak, read, and write "proper" English causes many people who are not white and/or middle class to attempt to "talk in a way that feel peculiar to [their] mind," as a character in Alice Walker's The Color Purple puts...
