Tag: White Mainstream English

“Black children continue to be unconsciously trained to correlate blackness with wrongness and whiteness with rightness.”

Let’s start with this idea: linguists do not designate any language as being superior.  And yet, when I teach my students to write academic essays in “standard” English, I am in fact telling them what language I believe is superior.  Baker-Bell argues that “standard” English is a construct created by … Read More