Articulate While Black

Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

AvH. Samy Alim,Geneva Smitherman,Foreward by Michael Eric Dyson

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-10-11
Mått155 x 231 x 17 mm
Vikt295 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780199812981

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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.

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

Articulate While Black brilliantly dissects the politics of language as embedded in the politics of race...The beautiful thing about the book is that it breaks down Obama's oral signifying...and helps us to navigate the complexities of Black linguistic habits and the complications of Black rhetoric writ large... Alim and Smitherman do a great deal of switching themselves, sliding from dense academic prose to streetwise vernacular, proving they are brilliant examples of the very practice they dissect...In the process, they leave little doubt about the cogency of their argument: that without being a past master of Black (American) rhetoric, Obama wouldn't be president of the United States.