Canagarajah, Suresh . "Safe Houses in the Contact Zone: Coping Strategies of African-American Students in the Academy." College Composition and Communication 48(1997): 173-196. Print.
Monday, April 13, 2009
DW 4a
Monday, March 30, 2009
Annotated Bibliography
Whitney, Jessica. "Five Easy Pieces: Steps toward Integrating AAVE into the
Classroom." English Journal 94 (2005): 64-69.
3b
Monday, March 23, 2009
WB3a
Monday, March 2, 2009
IAR 2
- Reasearch on how AAVE is used online
- Example of specific website that uses AAVE, blackplanet.com
- Uses of the reference "Fear of a black Planet"
- Research on BlackPlanet to express opinions
- Research on AAVE
- Usernames can suggest AAVE
- Certain areas allow for AAVE to be expressed
- The Internet views race and cultural factors as unimportant
- AA need to be better represented online
- Internet serves as an underground for AA to express themselves without political views
- General to specific
- Specific to problem
- Problem to explanation
- Compare and contrast with other readings
- Definition and facts
- Feedback to features online
- Internet to AA
- AA to AAVE
- underground to digital divide
- Specific quotes from linguists and scholars
- Using examples of AAVE on websites
- Quotes and ideas from sociolinguistics and scholars
- Prevent digital divide
- To accept AAVE as a primary language and AA speak their own language
- Our knowledge of AAVE
- Internet needs to represent all people
Monday, February 23, 2009
WB2b
The Internet gives us as an audience a variety of different types of websites that can help construct our lives using different types of languages, dialects, and ways of speaking. We see new ways of writing and speaking just by associating ourselves with people on the Internet. We are able to completely change our personality and the person that we truly are because the Internet gives a mysterious vibe to us all. We can discuss creative ideas and thoughts that we might be embarrassed or too scared to discuss to others in person. The bet.com website, gives people the option to express their emotions about different views on recent news, music, and politics. Having a place to do this is comforting to know that you can be whoever you want to be.
In the following reading, Knadler possesses a emotion toward people not having to be afraid of who they really are and how they speak without having to feel offended or ashamed. "Finding the ideal community where she no longer has to explain or apologize for her "Blackness" and where others understand her as she understands herself"(Knadler 236). There are many similarities that are discussed within this reading and also on the bet.com website. They both are able to give their audiences the ability to be who they want to be, and if writing in Ebonics is there thing, and then go right ahead. On the Bet website, many users use their free will to speak as they wish willingly, for example many users use phrases such as, “ Uz hoes be trippin on nuttin you got.”
Although many speak as they wish, the Internet still doesn’t dismiss all racial comments. "There is still going to be racism on the Internet, even though we don't know who they are. With in black culture, kinky is usually negatively connected words used to describe or express an aesthetic evaluation of hair texture that is tightly coiled or nappy"(Spellers 225). This is able to portray the ability to be whom you want to but, there are many who still feel racism will never end.