Scholars of African linguistics, creolistics, African American English and education explore the social costs in education of marginalizing Creole and other vernacular language varieties with the labe
This book examines the social cost of linguistic exceptionalism for the education of speakers of nondominant/subordinated languages in Africa and the African diaspora. The contributors take the langua
Bond (anthropology and education, Columbia U.) and Ciekawy (anthropology, Ohio U.) present nine chapters, penned by anthropologists and philosophers, which look at what the beliefs, practices, and oth
This book offers detailed ethnographic studies from Africa and the Caribbean to explain AIDS in a global and comparative third-world context. The essays move beyond medical or epidemiological models,
