Other People's English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy

Vershawn Ashanti Young, Rusty Barrett, Y’Shanda Young-Rivera, and Kim Brian Lovejoy Foreword by April Baker-Bell Afterword  by Victor Villanueva Working and Writing for ChangeSeries Editors: Steve Parks and Jessica Pauszek Information and Pricing978-1-64317-043-5 (paperback, $27.00); 978-1-64317-035-0 (PDF, $19.99). © 2019 by New City Community Press. 210 pages, with notes, bibliography, and illustrations. Download Online Appendix (PDF), including mini-unit lessons, with surveys and student samples. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. About This Book With a new Foreword by April Baker-Bell and a new Preface by Vershawn Ashanti Young and Y’Shanda Young-Rivera, Other People’s English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy presents an empirically grounded argument for a new approach to teaching writing to diverse students in the English language arts classroom. Responding to advocates of the “code-switching”