Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths about America's Lingua Franca by John McWhorter

Talking Back, Talking Black: Truths about America's Lingua Franca

John McWhorter with John McWhorter (Narrator)

4 hours, 20 minutes • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative fast-paced
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Linguists have been studying Black English as a speech variety for years, arguing to the public that it is different from Standard English, not a degradation of it. Yet false assumptions and controversies still swirl around what it means to speak ...

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