Table of Contents
Foreword Victor Villanueva ix
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction: Are You a Part of the Conversation? Vershawn Ashanti Young 1
Part I African American English and the Promise of Code-Meshing Rusty Barrett
1 Rewarding Language: Language Ideology and Prescriptive Grammar 15
2 You Are What You Speak: Language Variation, Identity, and Education 24
3 Be Yourself Somewhere Else: What's Wrong with Keeping Undervalued English out of the Classroom? 33
Part II Code-Meshing or Code-Switching? Vershawn Ashanti Young
4 Linguistic Double Consciousness 55
5 The Costs of Code-Switching 66
6 Code-Meshing: The New Way to Do English 76
Part III Code-Meshing and Responsible Education in Two Middle School Classrooms Y'Shanda Young-Rivera
7 Code-Meshing and Responsible Education 87
8 Reimagining the Classroom: Code-Meshing and the 21st-Century Student 94
9 Making Sense of It All: Code-Meshing and Educational Reform 113
Part IV Code-Meshing and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy for College Writing Instruction Kim Brian Lovejoy
10 Code-Meshing: Teachers and Students Creating Community 121
11 Code-Meshing Through Self-Directed Writing 130
12 Composing Code-Meshing: Thoughts on What to Do and How to Do It 141
Coda: The Power of Language Vershawn Ashanti Young 153
References 157
Index 165
About the Authors 175