Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.

By H. Alim, G. Smitherman, M. Dyson. 2012

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Dismantling anti-black linguistic racism in English language arts classrooms: Toward an anti-racist black language pedagogy (2019, methodology): “…in favor of an academic language that has particular a ﬃ nities to WME has not accelerated Black students ’ language and literacy development (Alim & Smitherman, 2012; Kirkland & Jackson, 2008) In fact, these approaches are dangerous and harmful to Black students as they teach them to be…”
Undoing Appropriateness: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and Language Diversity in Education (2015, unknown): “A recent example of public discourse surrounding AAE is the language use of President Barack Obama, who has been shown to strategically blend main-stream and African American modes of communication in ways that legiti-mize both forms of expression (Alim & Smitherman, 2012).”
“It’s Kind of Like Code-Switching”: Black Older Adults’ Experiences with a Voice Assistant for Health Information Seeking (2021, background): “reference a form of “cultural code-switching” which encompasses several aspects of behavior, including dialects which mix words that may not be widely recognized as a formal foreign language, but that have lineage in African languages and languages of those who were enslaved in the United States [3,”