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Using the Vernacular to Teach the Standard: http://www.stanford.edu/~rickford/papers/VernacularToTeachStandard.html

Rickford's Ebonics Page: http://www.stanford.edu/~rickford/ebonics/

Beginning with a bunch of links:

[|the linguistic society of america's jan 97 reaction to the ebonics controversy] [|a book on the tesc library online text thing] [|and another one] [|article! on jstor! wow!] What is ebonics? from the Linguistics Society of America [] The Oakland Resolution article [] Do you speak american? website []

As far as the background of Ebonics, we should probably talk about the debate between creole versus Anglicized english. Support for the creole hypothesis is [|in the first few pages here].