Black English, or African American English, is a language spoken among Black Americans, according to scholars. The language originated as Africans and Europeans interacted during the slave trade, ...

This authoritative introduction to African American English (AAE) is the first textbook to look at the grammar as a whole. Clearly organized, it describes patterns in the sentence structure, sound ...

But African American English also includes more formal or standard ... she couldn’t understand her white classmates and ...

For me, as an African American teacher, and having taught The Bluest ... my class feels more of a cultural studies class than an English class. The way I teach is that we explore the world ...