What's in a word? Apparently a whole lot, judging by the firestorm that erupted in recent days over the racially outdated language Sen. Harry Reid is reported to have used during a private ...

Sociolinguists Alim and Smitherman bring dual backgrounds as educators and activists to this metalinguistic analysis of “racially loaded cultural-linguistics controversies” about Obama, or as they so ...

Geneva Smitherman ended up in speech therapy in her freshman year at Wayne State University in the 1950s, when she failed a test to screen incoming teaching students for possible speech problems. The ...

Black Talk is the perfect source. "Even if you think you're hip, you'd better look up kitchen, got her nose open, jump salty, and hundreds of other sayings, former or current, that testify to the ...

Rita Charon, Carol T. Christ, Gerald Graff, Marshall W. Gregory, Michael Holquist, David B. Marshall, Imani Perry, Randolph D. Pope, Geneva Smitherman, David M. Steiner, Joan Hinde Stewart, Jenifer K.