Raciolinguistics: How Language Shapes Our Ideas About Race

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H. Samy Alim is Professor of Education and by courtesy Anthropology and Linguistics at Stanford University where he directs the Center for Race Ethnicity and Language (CREAL) the Institute for Diversity in the Arts (IDA) and African & African American Studies (AAAS). His most recent book Articulate While Black: Barack Obama Language and Race in the U.S. (2012 with Geneva Smitherman) addresses language and racial politics through an examination of President Barack Obama's language use-and America's response to it. Other books include Street Conscious Rap (1999) You Know My Steez (2004) Roc the Mic Right (2006) Tha Global Cipha (2006) Talkin Black Talk (2007) and Global Linguistic Flows (2009). His forthcoming volume Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies will appear in 2017 (with Django Paris Teachers College Press). John R. Rickford is the J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics and the Humanities at Stanford University and the current President of the Linguistic Society of America. His most recent books include Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English (co-authored 2000 winner of an American Book Award) Style and Sociolinguistic Variation (co-edited 2001) Language in the USA: Themes for the Twenty-First Century (co-edited 2004) Language Culture and Caribbean Identity (co-edited 2012) and African American Creole and Other Vernacular Englishes: A Bibliographic Resource (co-authored 2012). Arnetha F. Ball is a Professor in the Stanford Graduate School of Education and former President of the American Educational Research Association. She is author of Multicultural Strategies for Education and Social Change: Carriers of the Torch in the U.S. and South Africa (2006) and co-editor of several volumes including Bahktinian Perspectives on Language Literacy and Learning (2004) African American Literacies Unleashed: Vernacular English and Composition Classroom (2005) the NSSE volume With More Deliberate Speed (2006) and Studying Diversity in Teacher Education (2011).