15.2734, Media: NYT: Op-ed Piece on AAVE

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Date: 01-Oct-2004
From: Karen Chung < karchung at ntu.edu.tw >
Subject: NYT: Op-ed Piece on AAVE 
 

	
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Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 01:34:14
From: Karen Chung < karchung at ntu.edu.tw >
Subject: NYT: Op-ed Piece on AAVE 
 
There's an op-ed piece in the September 30, 2004 issue of the New York 
Times online, entitled:

Changing Places
by Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Some excerpts:

The black vernacular seems to be everywhere these days, from Dave 
Chappelle's show to Boost Mobile's ''Where you at?'' ad campaign.
       
''It becomes part of the mainstream in a minute,'' the poet Amiri Baraka 
told me, referring to the black vernacular. ''We hear the rappers say, 
'I'm outta here' - the next thing you know, Clinton's saying. 'I'm outta 
here.' ''And both Senator John Kerry and President Bush are calling out, 
''Bring it on,'' like dueling mike-masters at a hip-hop slam.

 ...
  
Is it possible, after all these years, that white folk have come to 
speak ''black'' far better than blacks speak ''white''? Just axing.


http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/30/opinion/30gates.html

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Karen Steffen Chung
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Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics



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