Ebonics

On Dialect, Dialogue and Good Books

Angela Flournoy | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Literature, Regional-Dialects, Dialect, Ebonics, Flannery O'Connor, James Baldwin, Dialect in Literature, Postbourgie, Ebonics Literature, Literature Dialect, Writing Dialects, Writing Dialogue, Ebonics in Literature, African American Literature, Black Voices News
Angela Flournoy

A recent conversation about Ebonics got me to thinking about Faulkner and James Baldwin, and the way certain dialects in this country get no respect.

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The DEA's New Tool Against Crime

Zack Isaacs | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drug Enforcement Agency, Controversy, Ebonics, Imprisonment Rates, Justice, Translators, African-American, Impact News
Zack Isaacs

There's a new job skill that the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) is requiring of a few agents: how to speak Ebonics. And that's probably because it is not usually taught in schools.

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'Ebonics' Translators Needed By Justice Department

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ebonics Translators, Department of Justice Ebonics, Ebonics, Justice Department Ebonics, Justice Department, Politics News

The Smoking Gun (via Gawker) reports that the Justice Department is looking to hire translators fluent in 'ebonics' to help monitor, transcribe and tr...

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Uh Oh, Here We Go Again with Ebonics 2.0

Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Teacher U, Black Children, Education, Teach for America, Ebonics, Race, Diversity, Inner City Schools, Inner City Culture, Media News
Natalie Holder-Winfield

A collaboration of teaching organizations made a frail attempt to exhume the 1990's Ebonics debacle by acknowledging African American English in their training curriculum.

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Sarah Palin and the New White Ebonics

Adam Hanft | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ebonics, Vice Presidential Debate, Double Standards, Palin's Grammar, Doggone Betcha, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Adam Hanft

Were she black, Sarah Palin's performance would have been skewered by the right as undignified and demeaning to the office she seeks.

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