LEADER 03893oam 22007094a 450 001 9910780327303321 005 20170821180302.0 010 $a0-292-79838-5 024 7 $a10.7560/747289 035 $a(CKB)111090425017248 035 $a(OCoLC)614991681 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10194792 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000246359 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11210564 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000246359 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10189448 035 $a(PQKB)11439304 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3443114 035 $a(OCoLC)55889939 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2013 035 $a(DE-B1597)587378 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292798380 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111090425017248 100 $a20010925d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSista, Speak!$b[electronic resource] $eBlack Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy /$fSonja L. Lanehart 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-74728-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [243]-247) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tPart One. THE NARRATIVES -- $t1. OUR LANGUAGE, OUR SELVES -- $t2. MAYA -- $t3. GRACE -- $t4. REIA -- $t5. DEIDRA -- $t6. SONJA -- $tPart Two. THE ANALYSES -- $t7. MAYA -- $t8. GRACE -- $t9. REIA -- $t10. DEIDRA -- $t11. SONJA -- $t12. THE REST OF THE STORY -- $tAppendix 1. Participants? Possible Selves Data -- $tAppendix 2. Participants? Speech Samples Data -- $tAppendix 3. Participants? Language and Literacy Ideologies Data -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aThe 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 it. In this book, Sonja Lanehart explores how this valorization of "proper" English has affected the language, literacy, educational achievements, and self-image of five African American women?her grandmother, mother, aunt, sister, and herself. Through interviews and written statements by each woman, Lanehart draws out the life stories of these women and their attitudes toward and use of language. Making comparisons and contrasts among them, she shows how, even within a single family, differences in age, educational opportunities, and social circumstances can lead to widely different abilities and comfort in using language to navigate daily life. Her research also adds a new dimension to our understanding of African American English, which has been little studied in relation to women. 606 $aLanguage and culture$zUnited States 606 $aAfrican Americans$xLanguages 606 $aAfrican Americans$xRace identity 606 $aAfrican American women$vBiography 606 $aLiteracy$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aAfrican American women$xEducation 606 $aAfrican American women$xSocial conditions 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aLanguage and culture 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xLanguages. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xRace identity. 615 0$aAfrican American women 615 0$aLiteracy$xSocial aspects 615 0$aAfrican American women$xEducation. 615 0$aAfrican American women$xSocial conditions. 676 $a305.48/896073 686 $aMS 3000$2rvk 700 $aLanehart$b Sonja L$01491724 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780327303321 996 $aSista, Speak$93713670 997 $aUNINA