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.