My Soul Look Back in Wonder

Name: My Soul Look Back in Wonder
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

My Soul Look Back in WonderMemories from a Life of Study, Struggle, and Doin Battle in the Language Wars\nAuthor(s): Geneva Napoleon Smitherman\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032080017, 978-1032080017\nSynopsis\nThis is the story of Dr. Geneva Smitherman, aka \""Dr. G,\"" the pioneering linguist often referred to as the \""Queen of Black Language.\"" In a series of narrative essays, Dr. G writes eloquently and powerfully about the role of language in social transformation and the academic, intellectual, linguistic, and societal debates that shaped her groundbreaking work as a Black Studies [url] and a Womanist scholar-activist of African American Language.\n\nThese eleven essays narrate the development of Dr. Gs race, gender, class, and linguistic consciousness as a member of the Black Power Generation of the 1960s and 70s. In My Soul Look Back In Wonder, Dr. G links the personal to the professional and the politic.