African-American Vernacular English

Not to be confused with African-American English. African-American Vernacular English Black Vernacular English Region United States Ethnicity African Americans Language family Indo-European...

African-American Vernacular English and social context

of African-American education , after the Civil War Historically black colleges and universitiesFraternities Academic study Studies Art Literature Celebrations Martin Luther King Jr....

African-American upper class

of African-American education , after the Civil War Historically black colleges and... mixed-race children of African and European descent in the Americas. Then called "mulattoes," they...

African-American literature

Find sources: "African-American literature" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( April 2021 ) (Learn how and when to remove this message ) Part of a series on African...

African-American music

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Ramona Edelin, who helped popularize the term ‘African American,’ dies at 78

Ramona Edelin, who helped popularize the term ‘African American,’ dies at 78 ; Dr. Edelin, left, with the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson at the 1989 African-American Summit in New Orleans. ; Dr. Edelin in her office in 1996 at the Washington headquarters of the National Urban Coalition.

Adoption History: African-American Adoptions

Before the 1960s, “Negro” adoption referred to the permanent placement of African-American children or mixed-race children who had one “Negro” birth parent. Few people considered transracial adoption a viable option for these children, with important exceptions such as Pearl S. Buck and Helen Doss, author of The Family Nobody Wanted. When adoption services were extended to children of color, they were strictly segregated and matching mattered just as it did for their white counterparts. But these children were placed in families so infr ...

Teaching Reading to African American Children

Reading depends on spoken language.* This is a simple statement with profound consequences for children whose spoken language differs from the language they are expected to read. For most children, the language skills they bring to school will support learning to read, which is mainly learning to understand their spoken language in a new form: print. However, some children’s language skills differ in important ways from the classroom language variety, and teachers rarely receive sound guidance on how to enhance their literacy instruction to m ...

“ ” African American Teachers, Children's Literature, and the Construction of Race in the Curriculum, 1....

“May We Not Write Our Own Fairy Tales and Make Black Beautiful?” African American Teachers, Children's Literature, and the Construction of Race in the Curriculum, 1920–1945 - Volume 63 Issue 1

Many African American last names hold weight of Black history

their children.” Enslavement, a centurieslong campaign designed to strip its victims of any... African, African American and diaspora studies department. “There’s tremendous variation...