Discourse on Ebonics

[Ron Kuzar]

Does anybody know of work on the recent Ebonics controversy?
I am interested in a description of the evolution of the debate, and
the socio-cultural arguments used in it, coming from fields such as
folklinguistic beliefs, policies on mono/bilingualism, English as the
official language of the US, etc.
The context of this request is a course I am giving next semester on
'Language and Nation-Building'. I have been reading some of the
contributions on the linguist list. Some interesting documents also show
up upon searching the net for 'ebonics'. What I am looking for is a
text-book level summary of the issues that may be assigned as reading.
Other contributions, more theoretical ones, are also highly welcome.
Thanks
Roni
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  |  Dr. Ron Kuzar                                                       |
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