African American English

[AFAMLANGUAGE Owner]

The following bibliography (books only) was put together by Carolyn Adger,
Geneva Smitherman, and Arthur Spears. It should provide anyone interested
in African American English (standard and vernacular varieties) with
information and references needed for a solid grounding in the subject.

AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH BIBLIOGRAPHY

Adger, Carolyn Temple, Donna Christian, and Orlando Taylor, eds. 1999.
MAKING THE CONNECTION:  LANGUAGE AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AMONG AFRICAN
AMERICAN STUDENTS.  Washington, DC, and McHenry, IL:  Center for Applied
Linguistics and Delta Systems.

Baugh, John.  1999. OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF SLAVES.  Austin:  University of
Texas Press

__________.  2000. BEYOND THE EBONICS CONTROVERSY.  New York:  Oxford
University Press

Dillard, J.L. 1972. BLACK ENGLISH.  New York: Random House

Edwards, Walter and Donald Winford, eds. 1991. VERB PHRASE PATTERNS IN BLACK
ENGLISH AND CREOLE. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

Kochman, Thomas. 1981.  BLACK AND WHITE: STYLES IN CONFLICT.  Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.

Labov, William.  l972. LANGUAGE IN THE INNER CITY. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press.

Major, Clarence. 1994.  JUBA TO JIVE: A DICTIONARY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN
SLANG. New York: Penguin Books.

Mufwene, Salikoko S, ed. 1993. AFRICANISMS IN AFRO-AMERICAN LANGUAGE
VARIETIES. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.

Mufwene, Salikoko S., John R. Rickford, Guy Bailey, and John Baugh, eds.
1998. AFRICAN AMERICAN ENGLISH: STRUCTURE, HISTORY AND USAGE. New York:
Routledge.

Perry, Theresa and Lisa Delpit.  1998. THE REAL EBONICS DEBATE:  POWER,
LANGUAGE, AND THE EDUCATION OF AFRICAN AMERICAN CHILDREN.  Boston:
Beacon Press.

Rickford, John.  1999. AFRICAN AMERICAN VERNACULAR ENGLISH.  Blackwell
Publishers

Rickford, John and Russell Rickford. 2000. SPOKEN SOUL: THE STORY OF BLACK
ENGLISH.  New York:  John Wiley and Sons.

Smitherman, Geneva.  2000. TALKIN THAT TALK:  LANGUAGE,CULTURE AND
EDUCATION IN AFRICAN AMERICA.  London and New York: Routledge,

_________________.   2000. BLACK TALK:  WORDS AND PHRASES FROM THE HOOD
TO THE AMEN CORNER.  (Revised Edition).  Boston and New York:  Houghton
Mifflin

Spears, Arthur K., ed. 1999. RACE AND IDEOLOGY: LANGUAGE, SYMBOLISM AND
POPULAR CULTURE. Wayne State University Press.