Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity by Vershawn Ashanti Young

Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity

African American Life

Vershawn Ashanti Young

192 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction gender race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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In Your Average Nigga, Vershawn Ashanti Young disputes the belief that speaking Standard English and giving up Black English Vernacular helps black students succeed academically. Young argues that this assumption not only exaggerates the differenc...

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