College English Mar 2007

“I Want to Be African”: In Search of a Black Radical Tradition/African-American-Vernacularized Paradigm for “Students’ Right to Their Own Language,” Critical Literacy, and “Class Politics”

Carmen Kynard

Abstract

Stephen Parks’s book "Class Politics" fails to convey the complex interplay of social movements (including Black Power and socialism) behind the Statement on Students’ Right to Their Own Language. Attention to this rich history enables a better understanding of African American discourses than is provided in another influential book, Lisa Delpit’s Other People’s Children.

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College English
Published
2007-03-01
DOI
10.58680/ce20075860
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literacy studies race and writing
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