LEADER 04555nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910954822803321 005 20260213154202.0 010 $a0-19-998598-7 010 $a1-283-84850-3 010 $a0-19-981297-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000310184 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24668189 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1026822 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10629518 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL416100 035 $a(OCoLC)922904060 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1026822 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB162438 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000310184 100 $a20120319d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aArticulate while Black $eBarack Obama, language, and race in the U.S. /$fH. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman ; foreword by Michael Eric Dyson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (xviii, 205 p. )$cill 311 08$a0-19-981296-9 311 08$a0-19-981298-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover -- Contents -- Foreword: Orator-In-Chief -- Showin Love -- 1. "Nah, We Straight": Black Language and America's First Black President -- 2. A.W.B. (Articulate While Black): Language and Racial Politics in the United States -- 3. Makin a Way Outta No Way: The "Race Speech" and Obama's Rhetorical Remix -- 4. "The Fist Bump Heard 'Round the World": How Black Communication Becomes Controversial -- 5. "My President's Black, My Lambo's Blue": Hip Hop, Race, and the Culture Wars -- 6. Change the Game: Language, Education, and the Cruel Fallout of Racism -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. 330 $aIn 'Articulate While Black', two renowned scholars of Black Language address language and racial politics in the US through an insightful examination of President Barack Obama's language use - and America's response to it. 330 $bBarack Obama is widely considered one of the most powerful and charismatic speakers of our age. Without missing a beat, he often moves between Washington insider talk and culturally Black ways of speaking--as shown in a famous YouTube clip, where Obama declined the change offered to him by a Black cashier in a Washington, D.C. restaurant with the phrase, "Nah, we straight." In Articulate While Black, two renowned scholars of Black Language address language and racial politics in the U.S. through an insightful examination of President Barack Obama's language use--and America's response to it. In this eloquently written and powerfully argued book, H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman provide new insights about President Obama and the relationship between language and race in contemporary society. Throughout, they analyze several racially loaded, cultural-linguistic controversies involving the President--from his use of Black Language and his "articulateness" to his "Race Speech," the so-called "fist-bump," and his relationship to Hip Hop Culture. Using their analysis of Barack Obama as a point of departure, Alim and Smitherman reveal how major debates about language, race, and educational inequality erupt into moments of racial crisis in America. In challenging American ideas about language, race, education, and power, they help take the national dialogue on race to the next level. In much the same way that Cornel West revealed nearly two decades ago that "race matters," Alim and Smitherman in this groundbreaking book show how deeply "language matters" to the national conversation on race--and in our daily lives. 606 $aBlack English$zUnited States 606 $aRace awareness$zUnited States 606 $aAfrican Americans$xLanguages 606 $aEnglish language$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aLanguage and education$zUnited States 606 $aSociolinguistics$zUnited States 615 0$aBlack English 615 0$aRace awareness 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xLanguages. 615 0$aEnglish language$xSocial aspects 615 0$aLanguage and education 615 0$aSociolinguistics 676 $a306.440973 700 $aAlim$b H. Samy$0604207 701 $aSmitherman$b Geneva$f1940-$0604896 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910954822803321 996 $aArticulate while Black$94542971 997 $aUNINA