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Figure 16.1 Population in Oakland and the U.S., percent by race Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2007 Lopez ...

The cost of living in Oakland is well above national averages. A person moving from Chicago to Oakland would pay approximately 1 ...

total. In addition, a full 30.6 percent of Oakland’s school population needs instruction in English as a second language. If 30 ...

available for teaching English to children who came to school speaking another language entirely, as they would cite in their re ...

This ideology is so deeply rooted that the lack of logic, the incongruity is left to stand unchallenged. The Oakland School Boar ...

situations, the carefully researched material made available to the public was largely ignored or, in some cases, mocked. The im ...

“genetics” is associated with highly controversial matters such as innate intelligence, DNA research and manipulation, stem cell ...

Some of the examples are far less aggressive than others; some are merely very subtle. Where others have researched a particular ...

legitimate language. Is their approach innovative, or demeaning? CNN Newsnight, 12/20/1996. 4. The Argument over the Issue of “E ...

names, “black English” is now being called “Ebonics.” San Jose Mercury News, 12/23/1996. Individuals or institutions step forwar ...

from implementing language curriculum based on Ebonics. Florida Times-Union, 1/27/1997. 2. Arsenio Hall be no fan of Ebonics. “M ...

folk devils: 1. Oakland Schools Err with Ebonics Vote: THE OAKLAND school board is doing its students a disservice by categorizi ...

reignited a decades-old controversy over the legitimacy of black English. USA Today, 12/20/1996. 7. “Ebonics” is not a language. ...

4. The “Ebonics’ Fraud. If the people who have been promoting “Ebonics” with a straight face have any sense of humor, they surel ...

2. LET us not misunderstand the Oakland School Board’s intentions regarding “Ebonics,” the new word for the way black people tal ...

white man now, white boy? ... We ain t gots to axe da white man for nothin in dis class. Village Voice, 9/30/1997. 3. A black la ...

America couldn’t care less what we do to segregate ourselves. The fact is language is power. And we can’t take that power away f ...

are dedicated to the education of all children to do in the face of such beliefs and tactics? Speaking up There were a number of ...

Perhaps the best popular illustration of how a moral panic originates is found in The Music Man, a musical comedy that first app ...

man, but it get de muny offa de White man. He be a sucka.’” Geoff Pullum also got hate mail for his Nature piece, as did Rosina ...