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Author	McWhorter, John H.
Title	Talking back, talking Black : truths about America's lingua franca / John McWhorter.
Publication Info.	New York : Bellevue Literary Press, 2017.
	©2017

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 9	427 M	IN LIBRARY

Edition	First edition.
Description	190 pages ; 20 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-173) and index.
Contents	It's complicated -- What do you mean "sounds Black"? -- But they can't talk that way at a job interview! -- Speaking Black or speaking minstrel? -- Through a lens darkly?
Subject	Black English.
	English language -- United States.
	African Americans -- Languages.
	Sociolinguistics -- United States.
Added Title	Truths about America's lingua franca
ISBN	9781942658207 (hardcover)
	1942658206 (hardcover)
	9781942658214 (ebook)

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