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Peer reviewedBragdon, Ida Brownlee – Journal of Negro Education, 1974
A discussion and clarification of various forms and levels of Black English is provided together with a conjugation of the verb "to be" outlining the levels of meanings as used by most divergent black speakers. (EH)
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Black Studies, Language Classification, Language Patterns
Folb, Edith – Human Behavior, 1973
A description and analysis of the various functions of black language as an integral part of the collective experience and identity of American blacks. (EH)
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Dialects, Black Studies, Language Patterns
Download full textSmitherman, Geneva – 1973
Black Arts Literature--of which the New Black Poetry is the most important manifestation--emerged during the past decade as the appropriate artistic counterthrust to Black Power. Rhetoric and shouting aside, this new thrust was, on a very basic level, simply a call to black folks to redefine Blackness and re-evaluate the Black Experience. For the…
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Dialects, Black Literature, Black Power
