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Articulate While Black
Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.
H. Samy Alim, Geneva Smitherman, and Foreward by Michael Eric Dyson
240 pages
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235x156mm
978-0-19-981296-7
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Hardback
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11 October 2012
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- The first book-length analysis of Barack Obama's rhetoric in relation to race
- A lively and engaging read from two renowned scholars of language and education
Barack Obama is widely considered one of the most powerful and charismatic speakers of our age. Without missing a beat, he often moves between Washington insider talk and culturally Black ways of speaking—as shown in a famous YouTube clip, where Obama declined the change offered to him by a Black cashier in a Washington, D.C. restaurant with the phrase, "Nah, we straight."
In Articulate While Black, two renowned scholars of Black Language address language and racial politics in the U.S. through an insightful examination of President Barack Obama's language use—and America's response to it. In this eloquently
written and powerfully argued book, H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman provide new insights about President Obama and the relationship between language and race in contemporary society. Throughout, they analyze several racially loaded, cultural-linguistic controversies involving the President—from his use of Black Language and his "articulateness" to his "Race Speech," the so-called "fist-bump," and his relationship to Hip Hop Culture.
Using their analysis of Barack Obama as a point of departure, Alim and Smitherman reveal how major debates about language, race, and educational inequality erupt into moments of racial crisis in America. In challenging American ideas about language, race, education, and power, they help take the national dialogue on race to the next
level. In much the same way that Cornel West revealed nearly two decades ago that "race matters," Alim and Smitherman in this groundbreaking book show how deeply "language matters" to the national conversation on race—and in our daily lives.Readership: General readers interested in language, race, and politics, especially where those issues concern the Obama presidency.
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H. Samy Alim, Associate Professor of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Interdisciplinary Policy Studies in Education, Stanford, Geneva Smitherman, Professor of English, Michigan State University, and Foreward by Michael Eric Dyson H. Samy Alim is Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Anthropology and Linguistics at Stanford University, where he directs the Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Language (CREAL) and the Institute for Diversity in the Arts (IDA). Some of his most recent books include You Know My Steez, Roc the Mic Right, Talkin Black Talk, and Global Linguistic Flows.
Geneva Smitherman is University Distinguished Professor Emerita of English, Co-Founder and Core Faculty, African American and African Studies, and Core Faculty, African Studies Center, at Michigan State University. A linguist and educational activist, she has been at the forefront of the struggle for language rights for over 30 years. She is the author of several books, among them Talkin and Testifyin, Black Talk, Talkin That Talk, and Word from the Mother.
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Foreword
Showin Love
1 <"Nah, We Straight>": Black Language and America's First Black President 12
2 A.W.B. (Articulate While Black): Language and Racial Politics in the U.S. 54
3 Makin A Way Outta No Way: The Race Speech and Obama's Rhetorical Remix 101
4 <"The Fist Bump Heard 'round the World>": How Black Communication Becomes Controversial 144
5 <"My President's Black, My Lambo's Blue>": Hip Hop, Race, and the Culture Wars 194
6 Change the Game: Language, Education, and the Cruel Fallout of Racism 248
Index
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