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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) for English in the Continental U.S. -- 1 Talkin and Testifyin -- Introduction: My Subjectivities and Positionalities -- Name a Thing a Thing: About Definitions and Naming -- What to Expect -- Questions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry -- References -- Filmography -- Discography -- Digital Media -- 2 A Seat at the Table: What Are You Bringing to the Table Before We Even Get Started? -- Introduction: Real Talk -- Linguistic Prejudice -- Linguistic Shame and Denial -- Linguistic Pride and Acceptance -- Contradictions and All -- What You're Not Going to Do: Definitions, Naming, and Pet Peeves -- To HEL-or HEC-and Back: The Messiness of Having the Army and the Navy -- Questions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry -- References -- Filmography -- Discography -- Digital Media -- 3 "Put Some Respeck on My Name!": Language and Uses of Identity in African American Communities -- Introduction: How We Gon Play This? -- Who Do People Say That I Am? -- A Word on Ebonics -- What Does It Feel Like to Be a Problem? -- Say My Name! -- Questions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry -- References -- Filmography -- Digital Media -- 4 "Where Your People From?": Problematizing Origins and Development -- Introduction: Controversial History, Development, and Contested Origins -- The Deficit Hypothesis -- (Neo-)Anglicist and (Neo-)Creolist Origins Hypotheses -- Consensus Hypotheses: Substratist, Restructuralist, and Ecological -- The Divergence/Convergence Hypothesis -- My Conclusion: Periodt! -- Questions, Discussion, and Further Inquiry -- References -- Filmography -- Discography -- 5 What's Good?: A Concise Descriptivist Meta-Grammar of Language Use in African American Communities -- Introduction: We Bout to Ride Up on This Elephant.

This issue brief will discuss African American protest politics. It will describe the transition from popular mass movement to radicalism and nationalism, to participation in mainstream political culture.

A leading African American Communist, lawyer William L. Patterson (1891-1980) was instrumental in laying the groundwork for the defeat of Jim Crow by virtue of his leadership of the Scottsboro campaign in the 1930s. This watershed biography shows how Patterson helped to advance African American equality by fostering and leveraging international support for the movement.

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