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"The Blacker the Berry, the Sweeter the Juice": African American Student Writers and the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
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Smitherman, Geneva – 1993
A study analyzed the degree to which an African American verbal tradition (Black English Vernacular) survives in the writing of Black students across a generational time span. A total of 867 essays from the 1984 and the 1988/89 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) were subjected to primary trait and holistic scoring analysis, and…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Students, Comparative Analysis, Cultural Context