Your average nigga : performing race, literacy, and masculinity

Your average nigga : performing race, literacy, and masculinity /

"Young mixes narrative autocritography, his mother's tongue and wit, analysis of literature on race, African American history, and language and literacy studies to argue against the dominant ideological model of literacy and for a theory of code meshing - a 'technique [that] meshes ve...

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Main Author: Young, Vershawn Ashanti
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Detroit : Wayne State University Press, 2007
Series:African American life.
Subjects:
Young, Vershawn Ashanti.
African American men > Social conditions.
African Americans > Race identity.
Race awareness > United States.
Racism > United States.
African American men > Biography.
African American men > Psychology.
Masculinity > United States.
African American men > Language.
Literacy > Social aspects > United States.
Electronic books.
Biography
Biographies.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the burden of racial performance
  • pt. 1. Home. Going home
  • So black I'm blue
  • Nigga-gender
  • Interlude : hooked on ebonics
  • pt. 2. School. Your average nigga
  • Casualties of literacy
  • To be a problem
  • Postlude : the street.

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