The Ebonics controversy in context: Literacies, subjectivities, and language ideologies in the United States

Language Ideological Debates

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 201-234

  Collins, James ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1515/9783110808049.201     Document Type: Chapter

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