Speaking of Race - Language, Identity, and Schooling Among African American Children

In Speaking of Race, Jennifer B. Delfino draws on three years of teaching experience and ethnographic research to examine language and racial identity among African American children in a Washington, D.C.-based after school program. after school program. It is based on three years of the author's teaching and ethnographic research.

List of contents

Chapter 1: "I Have a(n American) Dream": Race, Schooling, and Achievement in The Nation's Capital
Chapter 2: Talking "Like a Race": Language and Identity in Southeast
Chapter 3: "He-Said-She-Said (Do This)": Directives, Marking, and the Resemiotization of Authoritative Discourse
Chapter 4: "You about to get cooked!": Joning and Raciolinguistic Chronotopes of Policing and Survival
Chapter 5: "You Don't Know How to Read!": Racializing Discourses About Literacy
Chapter 6: Race, Literacy, and Power: Learning From Children About Educational Justice

About the author

By Jennifer B. Delfino

Summary

In Speaking of Race, Jennifer B. Delfino draws on three years of teaching experience and ethnographic research to examine language and racial identity among African American children in a Washington, D.C.-based after school program. after school program. It is based on three years of the author’s teaching and ethnographic research.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer B. Delfino
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2022
• EAN: 9781793606501
• ISBN: 978-1-79360-650-1
• No. of pages: 202
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; USA, Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Black & Asian Studies, Relating to childhood, Relating to African American / Black American people