Signs of Diaspora / Literacies, Creolization, and Vernacular Practice in African America.

This text looks at the roots of African-American reading and writing from the perspective of vernacular activities and creolization. It demonstrates that African-Americans, while utilizing the conventions and canons of Euro-America, drew on knowledge of their own to make oppositional meanings.

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Main Author:	Gundaker, Grey
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Series:	Commonwealth Center studies in American culture.
Subjects:	African Americans > Communication. African Americans > Languages. African languages > Influence on English. Black English. English language > United States > Foreign elements. Literacy > United States.
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