"I want to be African": In search of a black radical tradition/African-American-vernacularized paradigm for "students' right to their own language," critical literacy, and "class politics"

College English

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 360-390

  Kynard, Carmen ^a,b,c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c Caribbean Cultural Center   (United States)

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