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In Praise of spoken soul the story of black english "Spoken Soul brilliantly fills a huge gap. . . . a delightfully readable introduction to the elegant interweave between the language and its culture."–Ralph W. Fasold, Georgetown university "A... read more

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"Spoken Soul" was the name that Claude Brown, author of Manchild in the Promised Land, coined for black talk.

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  1. John R. Rickford (Author)

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