Other People's English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy

Other People's English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy

by Vershawn Ashanti Young, Rusty Barrett
Other People's English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy

Other People's English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy

by Vershawn Ashanti Young, Rusty Barrett

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Overview

With a new Foreword by April Baker-Bell and a new Preface by Vershawn Ashanti Young and Y’Shanda Young-Rivera, Other People’s English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy presents an empirically grounded argument for a new approach to teaching writing to diverse students in the English language arts classroom. Responding to advocates of the “code-switching” approach, four uniquely qualified authors make the case for “code-meshing”—allowing students to use standard English, African American English, and other Englishes in formal academic writing and classroom discussions. This practical resource translates theory into a concrete road map for pre- and inservice teachers who wish to use code-meshing in the classroom to extend students’ abilities as writers and thinkers and to foster inclusiveness and creativity. The text provides activities and examples from middle and high school as well as college and addresses the question of how to advocate for code-meshing with skeptical administrators, parents, and students. Other People’s English provides a rationale for the social and educational value of code-meshing, including answers to frequently asked questions about language variation. It also includes teaching tips and action plans for professional development workshops that address cultural prejudices.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781643170442
Publisher: Parlor Press, LLC
Publication date: 11/21/2018
Series: Working and Writing for Change
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 201
Sales rank: 245,091
File size: 3 MB

About the Author

Vershawn Ashanti Young is a scholar, writer, and performance artist who specializes in four areas of African American studies: language, literature, masculinity, and performance. He values collaborative academic work and in recent years has published with Frankie Condon a special issue of Across the Disciplines: “Anti-Racist Activism: Teaching Rhetoric and Writing” (2013); with Julie Naviaux, “Snap!: The Marlon Riggs Bibliography” (African American Review, 2012); with Bridget Harris Tsemo, From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances (2011); and with Aja Martinez, Code-Meshing as World English: Pedagogy, Policy, Performance (2011).
Rusty Barrett is an associate professor in the linguistics program and the English department at the University of Kentucky where he teaches courses in general linguistics, sociolinguistics, and linguistic anthropology. His research focuses on the highland Mayan languages of Guatemala, language revitalization, and language and sexuality, gender, and ethnicity. He is co-author (with Jung-Tae Kim) of Classroom English in Use (2011). He is the author of From Drag Queens to Leathermen: Language, Gender, and Gay Male Subcultures (Oxford UP, 2017).

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

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