This book focuses on one of the most persistent and controversial questions in modern sociolinguistics: the past and present development of African American Ver

This volume, based on presentations at a 1998 state of the art conference at the University of Georgia, critically examines African American English (AAE) socia

This book was the first to provide a comprehensive survey of linguistic research into African-American English and is widely recognised as a classic in the fiel

Based on a 500,000 word corpus of early sources collected from ex-slave narratives, ex-slave recordings, and interviews with hoodoo priests, this book reconstru

Offers a set of diverse analyses of traditional and contemporary work on language structure and use in African American communities.