RACIO-LINGUISTIC JUSTICE
THE CASE FOR BLACK ENGLISH
"Black people are not discriminated against because some speak a variety of Ebonics—rather...Ebonics is stigmatized because it is spoken primarily by black people. It is its association with a particular people and history that has compelled people to stigmatize it. Our attitudes towards language, it appears, are often steeped in our assumptions about the bodies of the speakers. We assume an essential connection—language as inherently tied to the body. In other words, language varieties—like people—are subject to racialization.”
(Greenfield, 2011, p. 50)
(Greenfield, 2011, p. 50)