The Skin That We Speak : Thoughts on Language and Culture in the Classroom

Ovuh Dyuh / Joanne Kilgour Dowdy -- Ebonics : a case history / Ernie Smith -- No kinda sense / Lisa Delpit -- Trilingualism / Judith Baker -- Some basic sociolinguistic concepts / Michael Stubbs -- Language, culture, and the assessment of African American children / Asa G. Hilliard III -- I ain't writin' nuttin' : permissions to fail and demands to succeed in urban classrooms / Gloria J. Ladson-Billings -- ...as soon as she opened her mouth! : issues of language, literacy, and power / Victoria Purcell-Gates -- Topsy-turvies : teacher talk and student talk / Herbert Kohl -- Toward a national public policy on language / Geneva Smitherman -- The clash of common senses : two African American women become teachers…