Compiled by Dorothy Ann Washington, Librarian, Black Cultural Center, Purdue University

• Balester, Valerie M. Cultural divide: a study of African- writers. Portsmouth, NH: Boynton/Cook, 1993.

  427.97308996 B195c 1993 (HSSE Library)

• Bailey, Guy and Natalie Maynor. "The divergence controversy." American Speech 64 (Spring '89): 12-39.

  805 Am3 (HSSE Library)

• Bailey, Guy and Natalie Maynor. "The present tense of be in the southern Black folk speech." American Speech 60 (Fall '85): 195-213.

  805 Am3 (HSSE Library)

• Baugh, John. "The Law linguistics and education: educational reform for African American language minority students." Linguistics and Education7.2 (1995): 87-105.

  410.5 L647 (HSSE Library)

• Brasch, Walter M. Black English and the mass media. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1981. 302.23 B736b (Black Cultural Center; HSSE Library)

• Brooks, Charlotte K., ed. Tapping potential: English and language arts for the Black learner. Urbana, Ill.: Black Caucus of the National Council of Teachers of English, 1985.

  428.00896073 T168 (Black Cultural Center; HSSE Library)

• Landrum-Brown, Joycelyn. [Black English home page:]

  Dr. Joycelyn Landrum-Brown teaches Black English at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

• Chambers, John W., ed. Black English: educational equity and the law. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Karoma Publishers, 1983.

  344.730798 B561 (Black Cultural Center)

• Center for Applied Linguistics. Teaching standard English in the inner city. [Washington] 1970.

  420.71 T22 (HSSE)

• Claerbaut, David. Black jargon in white America. Grand Rapids, Mich. Eerdmans, 1972.

  427.973 C515b 1972a (Black Cultural Center)

• Dandy, Evelyn Baker. ,Black communications: breaking down the barriers. Chicago, Ill.: African American Images, 1991.

  305.896073 D197b 1991 (Black Cultural Center)

• Dillard, J.L. (Joey Lee). Lexicon of Black English. New York: Seabury Press, 1977.

  427.973 D581L (Black Cultural Center; HSSE)

• Doss, Richard C. and Alan M. Gross. "The effects of [B]lack English and code- switching on intraracial perceptions." Journal of Black Psychology 20 (Aug. '94): 282-93.

  155.849605 J826 (Black Cultural Center)

• [EBONICS]

  Partial Contents: Linguistic Society of America resolution (January 3, 1977) -- Resolution of the Board of Education Adopting the Report and Recommendations of the African-American Task Force -- Amended Resolution of the Board of Education Adopting the Report and Recommendations of the African-American Task Force (January 15, 1997).

  Vertical File (Black Cultural Center)

• Edwards, Walter F. and Donald Winford, eds. Verb phrase patterns in Black English and Creole. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1991.

  427.008996073 V581 1991 (HSSE)

• Fields, Cheryl D. "Ebonics 101: What have we learned? Black Issues in Higher EducationJan. 23, 1997, p.19-21, 24-28.

  378.008996073 B5615 (Black Cultural Center)

• Goodwin, Marjorie Harness. He-said-she-said: talk as social organization among Black children. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1990.

  306.4408996073 G635h 1990 (HSSE)

• Holloway, Joseph E. and Winifred K. Vass. The African heritage of American English. Bloomington: Indiana Inidana UP, 1993.

  427.97308996 H728a 1993 (HSSE)

• Holloway, Karla F.C. The character of the word: the texts of Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Greenwood Press, 1987.

  813.52 H946Z H728 (Black Cultural Center)

• Holton, Sylvia Wallace.Down home and uptown: the representation of Black speech in American fiction. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson UP; London: Associated University Presses, 1984.

  813.009352 H744d (Black Cultural Center; HSSE Library)

• Hoover, Mary Rhodes. "A vindicationist perspective on the role of ebonics ([B]lack language) and other aspects of ethnic studies in the university." American Behavioral Scientist34 (Nov./Dec. '90): 251-62.

  301.15105 Am35 (Krannert (Periodicals); Undergraduate Library (Periodicals))

• Jordan, June. "White English/Black English: the politics of translation (1972)." In Civil Wars. Boston: Beacon Press, 1981.

  973.0496 J764c (Black Cultural Center)

• Juba to jive: a dictionary of African-American slang. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1994.

  427.09 M288d 1994 (Library Reference Black Cultural Center)

• Lee, Carol D. "Signifying as a scaffold for literary interpretation: the pedagogical implications of an African-American discourse genre." Urbana, Ill.: National Council of Teachers of English, 1993.

  810.989607307 L51s 1993 (HSSE)

• Mayhill, John. "The rise of be as an aspect marker in Black English vernacular." American Speech 63 (winter '88):304-25.

  805 Am3 (HSSE)

• Montgomery, Michael and Guy Bailey, eds. Language variety in the South: perspectives in [B]lack and white . University, Ala.: U Alabama P, 1986.

  427.976 L269 (HSSE)

• Morgan, Marcyliena. "Theories and politics in African American English." Annual Review of Anthropology 23 ('94): 325-45.

  301.205 An78 (HSSE)

• Mufwene, Salikoko S., ed. Africanism in Afro-American language varities. Athens: U of Georgia P, 1993.

  427.97308996 Af83 1993. (HSSE)

• Orr, Eleanor Wilson. Twice as less: Black English and the performance of [B]lack students in mathematics and science. New York: Norton, 1987.

  427.08996073 Or7t (Black Cultural Center; Mathematical Sciences; Undergraduate Library)

• Smitherman, Geneva, ed. Black English and the education of children and youth: proceedings of the National Invitational Symposium on the King Decision. Detroit, Mich.: Center for Black Studies, Wayne State U, 1981.

  371.9796073 N213p 1980 (Black Cultural Center)

• Sutcliffe, David M. System in [B]lack language. Clevedon; Philadelphia: Multilingual Matters, 1992.

  408.996 Su83s 1992 (HSSE)

• Taylor, Orlando L. "The Ebonics Deate: separating fact from fallacy." Black Issues in Higher Education Jan. 23, 1977, p. 84.

  378.008996073 B5615 (Black Cultural Center)

• Whiteman, Marcia Farr, ed. Reactions to Ann Arbor: vernacular Black english and education. Arlington, Va.: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1980.

  427.973 R22 (Black Cultural Center; HSSE)

• Williamson-Ige, Dorothy K. " Approaches to [B]lack language studies: a cultural critique." Journal of Black Studies 15 (Sept. '84): 17-29.

  301.45105 J827 (Black Cultural Center; HSSE)

• Wolfram, Walt. "Re-examining vernacular Black English." Language 66 (Mar. '90): 121-33. 820.5 L26 (HSSE)
  *For additional citations with Purdue holdings noted see the Linguistics Society of America resolution filed in the "Ebonics" folder in the Vertical File located in the Black Cultural Center.