Black English
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From Genesis to the promised land
African-American English
African American vernacular English
You're so fine, I'd drink a tub of your bathwater
Bahama songs and stories
Roc the Mic Right
Dialect tales
Twice as less
Rappin' and stylin' out
African American rhetoric(s)
The third ear
Black English; its history and usage in the United States
Baby, all those curves and me with no brakes
Black slang
Language, discourse, and power in African American culture
Some sources of Southernisms
The Bantu speaking heritage of the United States
Understanding African American Rhetoric
Black English
English in black and white
American earlier Black English
Africanisms in Afro-American language varieties
The word on the street
Nigger heaven
Black talk
Talking back, talking Black
African American English
"Re'lize whut ahm talkin' 'bout?"
Black talk
Beyond Ebonics
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