Nnamdi, Kojo Wright, Richard Cook, Fay Vaughn Ward, Kenneth Howard, Charlene Richardson, Trudy Thurston, Delabian Rice
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The history of Ebonics and the debate of whether it is a dialect, slang, or language. One of the main reasons for coining the term Ebonics by academics was to stop the use of the phrase non-standard English in categorizing certain speakers linguistically. The discussion broadens to consider the philosophy of language and racializing language. Elementary school teachers then discuss whether or not Ebonics plays any role in teaching English to their students. An interesting analogy that Dr. Delabian Thurston makes is that Swiss German speakers in Switzerland are taught to learn standard German in school, and she argues that African-Americans learning standard English should be treated similarly.
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