Margaret Lee's paper; was: Re: Jesse Jackson wants to ban "N-word"

[Cohen, Gerald Leonard]

Would Margaret perhaps be willing to share her paper with ads-l?  No doubt at least several members would be interested in it.
 
Gerald 

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From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Margaret Lee
Sent: Sun 12/3/2006 5:21 PM
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Subject: Re: Margaret Lee's paper; was: Re: Jesse Jackson wants to ban "N-word"



I was asked by the editor of a local university's student newspaper to write an op-ed piece on an issue that had sparked much debate on the campus: whether [Blacks] should call themselves African Americans, or  simply Americans.  However, in the staff's rush to get the paper to press, I was not able to submit the article on time. Now I use it in my classes.

  Margaret

"Cohen, Gerald Leonard" <gcohen at UMR.EDU> wrote:
  This paper sounds very interesting. Was it ever published? Was there any further discussion based on it?

Gerald Cohen

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From: American Dialect Society on behalf of Margaret Lee
Sent: Fri 12/1/2006 5:29 AM
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Subject: Re: Jesse Jackson wants to ban "N-word"



FWIW, this is an excerpt from a paper I wrote on the subject a few years ago:

The shift from Black to African American occurred in 1988 when Dr. Ramona Edelin, President of the National Urban Coalition, proposed that the next year's meeting be called, not the Black Summit, but the African American Summit. The purpose of this change was to reassess the condition of blacks in America while "linking Africans in North America with those on the Continent of Africa and throughout the Diaspora "(Smitherman, in Mufwene et al., 1998, 213).

Margaret Lee


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