Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity (African American Life Series)

by VershawnAshantiYoung (Author)

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  Paperback
  2007

  $33.77

  Examines how black masculinity is shaped by identity performances of racial authenticity, academic literacy, class mobility, and sexuality. This work critiques proponents of code-switching whose solution to the black literacy gap requires inner-city youth to adopt white English vernacular at school and to reserve black English vernacular for home.