Introduction Tom Trabasso and Deborah Sears Harrison.
Part1: Definition
1. The Anguish of Definition: Toward a New Concept of Blackness Ronald Williams
2. What Does It Take to Be Bilingual or Bidialectal? Klaus Riegel and Roy Freedle
3. Toward the Parameters of Black English Gilbert A. Sprauve
Part2: Historical Origins
4. Pidgins, Creoles, and the Origins of Vernacular Black English Elizabeth Closs Traugott
5. Sociolinguistic Configurations of African Language in the Americas: Some Educational Directives Angela Gilliam
6. The Black-Southern White Dialect Controversy: Who Did What To Whom? Ernest F. Dunn
7. My Gullah Brother and I: Exploration into a Community’s Language and Myth Through its Oral Tradition Ivan Van Sertima
Part3: Use
8. The Sounds of Black English William G. Moulton
9. Is There A Correspondence Between Sound and Spelling? Some Implications for Black English Speakers, Verley O’Neal and Tom Trabasso
10. Techniques for Eliciting Casual Speech Samples for the Study of the Black English Vernacular Deborah Sears Harrison
11. Black and White Children’s Responses to Black English Vernacular and Standard English Sentences: Evidence for Code-Switching William S. Hall
12. Black English in Black Folklore Danille Taylor
Part4: Implications
13. Linguistic Relativity: Any Relevance to Black English? John B. Carroll
14. The Cognitive Deficit-Difference Controversy: A Black Sociopolitical Perspective M. Eugene Wiggins
15. Black People and Black English: Attitudes and De-education in a Biased Macroculture Ann Covington
16. Levels of Sociolinguistics Bias in testing Walt Wolfram.