Las Vegas Review-Journal

Senator said mouthful with his reference to ‘Negro dialect’

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 Apparently a whole lot, judging by the firestorm that erupted in recent days over the racially outdated language Sen.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 ...
AOL

Many Black Americans speak African American English. But is it embraced in schools?

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 ...
Publishers Weekly

Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.

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 ...
JSTOR Daily

Report to the Teagle Foundation on the Undergraduate Major in Language and Literature: MLA Teagle Foundation Working Group

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.
The Stanford Daily

We have waited long enough: Black students’ response to CCSRE faculty directors

Dear Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) Faculty Directors: Thank you for your efforts to respond to student concerns regarding the Introduction to Comparative Studies of Race ...