DRAFT Bibliography on AAVE/Black English and College Composition

 I was interviewed by a doctoral student this week on professors' attitudes on African American Vernacular English and I compiled some of the sources I read in my dissertation studies. This list is partial and I'll look for others' bibliographies to update my reading.

[The publication style references are not corrected. So sue me.]

Baker-Bell, April. Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identify, and Pedagogy. Routledge: NY, 2020. 

Ball, Arnetha, et al. Black linguistics: Language, society and politics in Africa and the Americas. Routledge, 2005.

Ball, Arnetha F, and Ted Lardner. African American Literacies Unleashed: Vernacular English and the Composition Classroom. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2010. Internet resource.

Bean, Janet, et al. "Should we invite students to write in home languages? Complicating the yes/no debate." Composition studies 31.1 (2003): 25-42.

Bohney, Moving Students toward Acceptance of “Other” Englishes (2016)

Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). CCCC Statement on Ebonics - Conference on College Composition and Communication

Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). This Ain’t Another Statement! This is a DEMAND for Black Linguistic Justice!

Davila, Bethany. "Standard English and Colorblindness in Composition Studies: Rhetorical Constructions of Racial and Linguistic Neutrality." WPA: Writing Program Administration 40.2 (2017): 154-173.

Davila, Standard English and Colorblindness in Composition Studies.

DeBose, Charles. “The Ebonics Phenomenon, Language Planning, and the Hegemony of Standard English.” Talkin Black Talk: Language, Education, and Social Change. Ed. H. Samy Alim and John Baugh. New York: Teachers College P, 2007. 30–42. Print. 

Elbow, Vernacular Englishes in the Writing Classroom (Alt-Dis)

Kelly-Riley, Diane. "Validity inquiry of race and shared evaluation practices in a large-scale, university-wide writing portfolio assessment." Journal of Writing Assessment 4.1 (2011). 

Kynard, Carmen. "Writing while Black: The Colour Line, Black Discourses and Assessment in the Institutionalization of Writing Instruction." English Teaching: Practice and Critique 7.2 (2008): 4-34.

Kynard, Carmen. Vernacular Insurrections: Race, Black Protest, and the New Century in Composition-Literacies Studies. Place of publication not identified: State Univ Of New York Pr, 2014. Print.

Kynard. “From Candy Girls to Cyber Sista-Cipher: Narrating Black Females' Color-Consciousness and Counterstories in and out of School”

Makoni, Sinfree. “African Languages as European Scripts: The Shaping of Communal Memory.” Negotiatng the Past: The Making of Memory in South Africa. Ed. Sarah Nuttall and Carli Coetzee. Capetown: Oxford UP, 1998. 242–48. Print.

Martinez, Aja, et al. "Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education." Peitho: Journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition 20.2 (2018): 412-419.

Milroy (2002) Language ideologies and the consequences of standardization

Milroy (2002) Language ideologies and the consequences of standardization.pdf [myth of standardization by non linguists … such as everyone who told you about standard language]

Mufwene, Salikoko. “What is African American English?” Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English. Ed. Sonja Lanehart. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2001. 21–51. Print. 

Perryman-Clark, Staci, David E. Kirkland, Austin Jackson, and Geneva Smitherman. Students' Right to Their Own Language: A Critical Sourcebook. , 2015. Print.

Piche et al, Teachers' Subjective Evaluations of Standard and Black Nonstandard English Compositions A Study of Written Language Attitudes (1978)

Richardson, Coming From the Heart: African American Students, Literacy Stories, and Rhetorical Education

Robinson, Michelle, Vershawn Ashanti Young, and Carmen Kynard, eds. The Routledge Reader of African American Rhetoric. Routledge, 2015.

Scott, Jerrie C, Dolores Y. Straker, and Laurie Katz. Affirming Students' Right to Their Own Language: Bridging Language Policies and Pedagogical Practices. Abingdon: Routledge, 2009. Print.

Smitherman, Geneva, and Victor Villanueva, eds. Language Diversity in the Classroom: From Intention to Practice. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 2003. Print.

Smitherman, Geneva. Talkin that Talk: Language, Culture and Education in African America. London: Routledge, 2000. Print.

Smitherman, Geneva. “CCCC’s Role in the Struggle for Language Rights.” CCC 50.3 (1999): 349–76. Print. 

“Sanchez and Branson (2016), Rose of Composition Programs in Denormalizing whiteness”


Source: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-2.3/kolb.html


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