Articulate while Black : Barack Obama, language, and race in the U.S / H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman ; foreword by Michael Eric Dyson.

Articulate while Black : Barack Obama, language, and race in the U.S / H. Samy Alim and Geneva Smitherman ; foreword by Michael Eric Dyson.

"Barack Obama is widely considered one of the most powerful and charismatic speakers of our age. Without missing a beat, he often moves between Washington insider talk and culturally Black ways of speaking--as shown in a famous YouTube clip, where Obama declined the change offered to him by a B...

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Main Author: Alim, H. Samy (Author)
Contributors: Smitherman, Geneva, 1940-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
Subjects:
Obama, Barack > Language.
Obama, Barack > Oratory.
Black English > United States.
Race awareness > United States.
African Americans > Languages.
English language > Social aspects > United States.
Language and education > United States.
Sociolinguistics > United States.
Genre/Form:dissertations, Academic theses
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