ISBN:
1283848503
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9781283848503
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9780199812974
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 205 p)
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ill
Parallel Title:
Print version Articulate While Black : Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S
DDC:
306.440973
Keywords:
Obama, Barack Language
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Obama, Barack Oratory
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Black English
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Race awareness
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African Americans Languages
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English language Social aspects
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Language and education
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Sociolinguistics
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African Americans ; Languages
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Black English ; United States
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English language ; Social aspects ; United States
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Language and education ; United States
;
Obama, Barack ; Language
;
Obama, Barack ; Oratory
;
Race awareness ; United States
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Barack Obama is widely considered one of the most powerful and charismatic speakers of our age. Without missing a beat, he often moves between Washington insider talk and culturally Black ways of speaking--as shown in a famous YouTube clip, where Obama declined the change offered to him by a Black cashier in a Washington, D.C. restaurant with the phrase, ""Nah, we straight.""In Articulate While Black, two renowned scholars of Black Language address language and racial politics in the U.S. through an insightful examination of President Barack Obama's language use--and America's response to it
Description / Table of Contents:
""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword: Orator-In-Chief""; ""Showin Love""; ""1. “Nah, We Straight�: Black Language and America�s First Black President""; ""2. A.W.B. (Articulate While Black): Language and Racial Politics in the United States""; ""3. Makin a Way Outta No Way: The “Race Speech� and Obama�s Rhetorical Remix""; ""4. “The Fist Bump Heard �Round the World�: How Black Communication Becomes Controversial""; ""5. “My President�s Black, My Lambo�s Blue�: Hip Hop, Race, and the Culture Wars""
Description / Table of Contents:
""6. Change the Game: Language, Education, and the Cruel Fallout of Racism""""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""Z""
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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