Your Average Nigga - Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity

Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity



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English | ISBN: 081433248X | 2007 | 192 pages | PDF | 4 MB

In Your Average Nigga, Vershawn Ashanti Young disputes the belief that speaking Standard English and giving up Black English Vernacular helps black students succeed academically. Young argues that this assumption not only exaggerates the differences between two compatible varieties of English but forces black males to choose between an education and their masculinity, by choosing to act either white or black. As one would expect from a scholar who is subject to the very circumstances he studies, Young shares his own experiences as he exposes the factors that make black racial identity irreconcilable with literacy for blacks, especially black males.
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