Linguistic Discrimination in School AfricanAmerican English

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Discusses linguistic discrimination of African American dialects and a court case that has helped to prevent further discrimination based on language. ---- Transcript When rural southern blacks eventually moved to the cities of the north, they brought their own kind of English with them. They're young men now, but 25 years ago, Dwayne, Asheen, and Kihilee were students at this school. Situated in a prosperous, mostly white suburb of Ann Arbor, there were not many black kids at the Martin ...