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Black English and the education of black children and youth
No full textGeneva Smitherman. Black English and the education of black children and youth. In: Langage et société, n°19, 1982. pp. 114-118
Geneva Smitherman
No full textGeneva Smitherman is University Distinguished Professor Emerita of English and a pioneering scholar-activist in Black Studies and Sociolinguistics. Smitherman received her bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees with concentrations in English and Latin from Wayne State University (1960; 1962) and her Ph.D. in English from the University of Michigan (1969). She began her academic career as a nineteen-year-old high school teacher of English and Latin in the Detroit Public Schools (DPS). She was a member of the first faculty in \u201cAfro-American Studies\u201d at Harvard University, and she helped create Black Studies programs at Wayne State and Michigan State. She was affectionately known by her students as \u201cDr. G,\u201d an accomplished academic who always remained \u201ctheir girl.\u201d She has received several awards for her Sociolinguistics research which challenges myths about African American Language and advocates language rights of all marginalized communities. She came to MSU as a professor of English in 1989. In 1990, Smitherman founded \u201cMy Brother\u2019s Keeper,\u201d a male mentoring program in partnership with DPS\u2019s Malcolm X Academy. She has authored and edited or co-edited 15 books and monographs and more than 125 articles, essays, and published opinion pieces. Her latest book is Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language and Race in the U.S. (with Dr. H. S. Alim), which presents insights about President Obama and the relationship between language and race in contemporary society. Smitherman retired from MSU in 2012
African Americans and "English Only"
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Los americanos de origen africano y el "inglés solamente"
El movimiento en pro del "inglés solamente" generalmente no se caracteriza como tema rel-acionado a los afro-americanos; se tiende a limitar el enfoque a los hispanos y asiâticos. Sin embargo, la lucha histórica de los negros en general, y en torno al vernáculo negro en particular, puede ser una fuerza importante en la lucha pro los derechos linguisticos de los grupos minori-tarios. Se investiga la perspectiva negra a través de un breve repaso de los amplios beneficios sociales de la lucha afro-americana - por medio del lente del liderato negro - y a través de una encuesta de afro-americanos residentes de grandes ciudades. La conclusión destaca la necesidad de activar y educar a los afro-americanos en cuanto al "inglés solamente".
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Afrikaj usonanoj kaj la movado "Nur-Angla"
La nuntempa movado "Nur-Angla" (kiu celas oficialigi la anglan lingvon en Usono kiel solan oficialan lingvon) kutime ne estas karakterizata kiel demando por afrikaj usonanoj, car gi foku-sigas je hispanparolantoj kaj azianoj. Sed la historia strebado de nigruloj generale, kaj cirkaŭ la nigrula angla idiomo specife, implicas ke afrikaj usonanoj povas konsistigi signifan forton en la strebado por minoritataj lingvaj rajtoj. Oni ci tie esploras la nigrulan perspektivon pri Nur-Angla per mallonga superrigardo de la pli vastaj sociaj avantagoj de la afrik-usona strebado, tra la lenso de la nigrula gvidantara klaso, kaj per publika enketo de afrikaj usonanoj en cefaj urboj. La artikolo konkludas, ke necesas aktivigi kaj klerigi la afrikajn usonanojn pri Nur-Angla.</jats:p
“The Chain Remain the Same” Communicative Practices in the Hip Hop Nation
No full text It is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace. </jats:p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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