A unique blend of memoir and scholarship, Keith Gilyard's Voices of
the Self is a penetrating analysis of the linguistic and cultural
collision experienced by African-American students in the public
education system. Gilyard examines black students negotiate their
way through school and discusses the tension between the use of
Black English and Standard English, underlining how that tension is
representative of the deeper conflict that exists between black
culture and white expectations. Vivid descriptions-often humorous,
sometimes disturbing, always moving-of Gilyard's own childhood
experiences in school and society are interlaced with chapters of
solid sociolinguistic scholarship. Encompassing the perspectives of
both the street and the academy, Voices of the Self presents an
eloquent argument for cultural and linguistic pluralism in American
public schools.
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