Sista Speak Black Women Kinfolk Talk about by Sonja L. Lanehart PAPERBACK

Sista, Speak!Black Women Kinfolk Talk About Language and Literacy\nAuthor(s): Sonja L. Lanehart\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9780292747296, 978-0292747296\nSynopsis\n2003 - Honorable Mention, Myers Outstanding Book Award The Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America\n\n The demand of white, affluent society that all Americans should speak, read, and write \""proper\"" English causes many people who are not white and/or middle class to attempt to \""talk in a way that feel peculiar to [their] mind,\"" as a character in Alice Walker's The Color Purple puts it. In this book, Sonja Lanehart explores how this valorization of \""proper\"" English has affected the language, literacy, educational achievements, and self-image of five African American women-her grandmother, mother, aunt, sister, and herself. \n\n Through interviews and written statements by each woman, Lan.