Race, Rhetoric, and Technology (NCTE-Routledge Research Series) by Adam J. Banks

Author:Adam J. Banks [Banks, Adam J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2006-08-15T07:00:00+00:00

the oral tradition has served as a fundamental vehicle for gittin ovuh. That tradition preserves the Afro-American heritage and reflects the collective spirit of the race. Through song, story, folk sayings, and rich verbal interplay among everyday people, lessons and precepts about life and survival are handed down from generation to generation. (p. 199)

The continued focus of many on the oral in Black English, then, is not a resignation that written English is somehow the exclusive domain of Whites—Smitherman herself offers masterful analysis of a wide array of written texts—but a matter of remaining true to the roots of the language, no matter what forms it might take now. Maintaining that focus is also an act of self-determination, of resistance, of keeping oppositional identities and worldviews alive, refusing to allow melting pot ideologies to continue to demand that Black people assimilate to White notions of language and identity as the cost for access to economic goods or a public voice in American society.

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