{"product_id":"articulate-while-black-barack-obama-language-and-race-in-the-u-s-1","title":"Articulate While Black: Barack Obama, Language, and Race in the U.S.","description":"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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eArticulate While Black\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUsing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-3409004\"\u003eH. Samy Alim\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-11731083\"\u003eGeneva Smitherman\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199812981\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0199812985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-LAN\"\u003eLanguage Arts \u0026amp; Disciplines\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-LAN009000\"\u003eLinguistics | General\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eH. Samy Alim\u003c\/strong\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eYou Know My Steez, Roc the Mic Right, Talkin Black Talk\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eGlobal Linguistic Flows\u003c\/em\u003e. He has also written for various media outlets, including \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAl-Ahram Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e (Cairo), and \u003cem\u003eThe Philadelphia New Observer, \u003c\/em\u003e among others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGeneva Smitherman\u003c\/strong\u003e is University Distinguished Professor Emerita of English, Co-Founder and Core Faculty, African American and African Studies, and Core Faculty, African Studies Center, at\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eMichigan State University. She is a pioneering scholar-activist in the struggle for language rights and for Black Studies. Her list of books includes \u003cem\u003eTalkin and Testifyin, Discourse and Discrimination, Black Talk, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eTalkin That Talk, Language Diversity in the Classroom\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eWord from the Mother\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44564596490477,"sku":"9780199812981","price":74.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_f4bf1c44-dfe3-41a6-826e-83353cd20509.jpg?v=1701853391","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/articulate-while-black-barack-obama-language-and-race-in-the-u-s-1","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}