Negotiating Elite Talk by John Taggart Clark - 9781138160750

Taylor & Francis

Negotiating Elite TalkLanguage, Race, Class and Identity Among African American High Schoolers\nAuthor(s): John Taggart Clark\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138160750, 978-1138160750\nSynopsis\nLen Gregory is a law school student. As part of his elite law school's community outreach programme, he finds himself in a local high school several times a week passing on his own legal knowledge to the students in a course he teaches entitled Street Law. This book shows that passing on legal knowledge is not the only thing Len is doing in Street Law. He is also trying to get his students to talk and argue about the law in the same way that he does.\n\nLen talks about legal matters using hypothetical, speculative scenarios played out by generic people - if people occur at all in his scenarios. The students, meanwhile, recount anecdotes inhabited by real people doing things in the real world. This book describes how Len .