Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. 1 Introduction: Street Speech as a Social Dialect 1
5. 2 The Birth of Black Street Speech 11
6. 3 Street Speech and Formal Speech: Linguistic Survival in Black and White Societies 23
7. 4 The Scholar and the Street: Collecting the Data 36
8. 5 Specialized Lexical Marking and Alternation 54
9. 6 Unique Grammatical Usage 68
10. 7 Phonological Variation 91
11. 8 Educational Insights 108
12. 9 Impediments to Employability 118
13. 10 Dynamic Black Speech: A Nonideal Linguistic State 127
14. Bibliography 135
15. Index 143