Volume 19, Number 8 · November 16, 1972
You Makin' Sense
By Monroe K. Spears
Black Jargon in White America
by David Claerbaut
Eerdmans, 89 pp., $1.95
Black English: Its History and Usage in the United States
by J.L. Dillard
Random House, 361 pp., $10.00
Both these books are by white authors who are passionately convinced that the language of black Americans deserves respect and study. The intention of both books is to make amends for the insults and errors of the past and, more urgently and practically, to enable teachers of blacks, especially in the urban ghettos, to understand their students' native language. Here, however, the resemblances between the books end.
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