SONJA J. LANEHART, Sista, speak! Black women kinfolk talk about language and literacy. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. Pp. xxi, 252. Hb $55.00, Pb $22.95.
- 18 June 2004
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Language in Society
- Vol. 33 (03) , 462-465
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404504323055
Abstract
In Sista, speak! Sonja Lanehart presents the language and literacy autobiographies of three generations of African American women. These women tell the stories of their education and aspirations, focusing on how their literacy and language were influenced by social, economic, and political forces within school, family and community. Lanehart interprets the rich descriptions in their stories by examining the ideological perspectives of “experiences and cultures and ecologies” that shaped the women's views of themselves and their worlds” (p. 29).Keywords
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