Lost in Translation: Language, Race and the DEA's Legitimization of Ebonics

  1. H Samy Alim1,
  2. Imani Perry2

Article first published online: 26 JAN 2011

DOI: 10.1111/j.1556-3502.2011.52120.x

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Anthropology News

Anthropology News

Volume 52, Issue 1, page 20, January 2011

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Alim, H. S. and Perry, I. (2011), Lost in Translation: Language, Race and the DEA's Legitimization of Ebonics. Anthropology News, 52: 20. doi: 10.1111/j.1556-3502.2011.52120.x

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  1. 1

    Associate professor of education and, by courtesy, anthropology and linguistics at Stanford University. He is director of the Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Language (C-REAL) and serves on the Language and Social Justice Committee of the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.

  2. 2

    Professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University. She is the author of Prophets of the Hood: Politics and Poetics in Hip Hop (2004) and More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United States (2011).

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  1. Issue published online: 26 JAN 2011
  2. Article first published online: 26 JAN 2011

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[African American Language, AAL, Ebonics, sociolingistics, education, race and racism]

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