"black" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Like many black people who came of age in the 60's, I've always delighted in the mind-bending playfulness of the black vernacular.
- Writing in The Times 25 years ago, James Baldwin ventured that the black vernacular was one of self-defense.
- "It becomes part of the mainstream in a minute," the poet Amiri Baraka told me, referring to the black vernacular.
- But the black vernacular of Oscar Hammerstein, Jr. was too self-conscious, and it didn't always suit the music.
- That is precisely what blacks have been doing for years, say linguists who study black vernacular.
- "What they're really responding to is not me; they are seeing themselves in us," she insists, her speech a unique mixture of Oxford English and black vernacular.
- Louis, in the black American vernacular, 'tommed out'.
- During this time, linguists say, the black vernacular has steadily diverged from standard English and become more widespread in poor, urban neighborhoods.
- Some teachers applaud that approach, especially those who feel that the black vernacular is just bad grammar.
- Individual school districts in cities with large black populations, like Baltimore, Detroit and Philadelphia, are using programs to teach students who use black vernacular.
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