Core Principle 2

Writing is more than White Mainstream English, therefore we support our students' right to use "their own patterns and varieties of language--the dialects of their nurture or whatever dialects in which they find their own identity and style." 

Resource List

• Baker-Bell, April. "I can switch my language, but I can’t switch my skin”: What teachers must understand about linguistic racism." The guide for white women who teach black boys (2017): 97-107.

• Baker-Bell, April. Linguistic justice: Black language, literacy, identity, and pedagogy. Routledge, 2020.

• Baker-Bell, April, et al. "This ain’t another statement! This is a DEMAND for Black linguistic justice." Conference on College Composition and Communication. Vol. 3. 2020.

• Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC). "Students’ right to their own language position statement." (1974).

• Inoue, Asao B. "How do we language so people stop killing each other, or what do we do about white language supremacy?" College Composition and Communication 71.2 (2019): 352-369.

• Young, Vershawn Ashanti. "" Nah, we straight": An argument against code switching." Jac (2009): 49-76.

• Young, Vershawn Ashanti, and Rusty Barrett. Other people's English: Code-meshing, code-switching, and African American literacy. Parlor Press LLC, 2018.