It is not the black child's language that is in question, it is not his language that is despised: It is his experience.
Baldwin’s “it is his experience” aligns with Young’s language-justice stance and Alvarez/Wan/Lee’s translingual pedagogy—value lived experience and plural voice over monolingual “objectivity.”
Once we havesome words, ideas, frustrations on paper, we give ourselves small writingtasks, like “just write whatever you can or feel about X topic for 5 minutes.”
Pedagogy in action: The authors’ translingual strategies (freewriting, revision cycles) complement Young’s call to teach descriptively and embrace code meshing in the same paper.
Later that day I received a reply from a young bank employee offering further details. Actually, I have no idea if she was young — I just assumed she was because her long e-mail was full of emoticons and text-messaging abbreviations — including, I kid you not, “LOL.”
Gatekeeping vs. pragmatics: Jenkins frames SAE as practical for credibility with unknown audiences, while Young critiques “Standard English” as gatekeeping that marginalizes nonstandard varieties. (Used for concept-map edge between Jenkins / Young.)