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Written by David J. Ramirez and edited by several others, this book is a must-have for serious learners of AAVE. This book covers not only what AAVE is but also what it isn’t. The book is primarily aimed at answering major educational issues such as the legitamecy of AAVE’s use in the standard classroom. This book is not recommended for those who want a simple overview of the linguistics, but for those who are serious about learning not only about the language structure but the controversy in public education surrounding the dialect. The equivalent, Tolliver-Weddington (1979); the antonym, Smith (1992) and Smith (1998); both as summarized in Baugh's words.Blair I. V., Judd C. M., Fallman J. L. (2004b). The automaticity of race and afrocentric facial features in social judgments. J. Pers. Soc. Psychol. 87 Put simply, when someone is a speaker of a language, they are said to have communicative competence in that language. Communicative competence consists of two parts: The first is linguistic competence, which means that a speaker knows the parts of a language and how to put them together. The second is performance, which basically means that the speaker of a language also knows how to use the language in terms of who should speak it, to whom, and in what situations. Phillips T. (2010). Put your money where your mouth is: the effects of southern vs. standard accent on perceptions of speakers. Soc. Sci. Kushins E. R. (2014). Sounding like your race in the employment process: an experiment on speaker voice, race identification, and stereotyping. Race Soc. Problems 6 Once again written in the AAVE style, this book covers the story of a boy named Kevin who hopes for a little brother but instead is greeted with a little sister instead. After feeling ignored and upset, he realizes the importance of being an older brother. This book is great for not only those who are interested in AAVE, but also for those who are adjusting to the idea of being an older sibling.

Ma D. S., Correll J., Wittenbrink B. (2015). The Chicago face database: a free stimulus set of faces and norming data. Behav. Res. Methods 47One school board, in one city, passed one little resolution,” writes Michael Hobbes in a 2017 HuffPost Highline piece revisiting what happened. “And the rest of the country spent the next six months freaking out about it.” Ain’t nobody got time for double negatives…said no grammar pedant ever. To a prescriptivist, using double negatives for actually emphasizing more negation is just the worst. If I’m not saying nothing, obviously I must be saying something. As the assumption goes, because two negatives must logically cancel each other out, people who use double negatives in this way must also logically be uneducated or unintelligent. This, of course, is a false belief that is still widely shared in mainstream American culture (possibly even among speakers who regularly use double negation themselves). Purnell T., Idsardi W., Baugh J. (1999). Perceptual and phonetic experiments on American English dialect identification. J. Lang. Soc. Psychol. 18