normalizing Whiteness through policing speech.
normalizing SAE over letting people use their own dialect
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- Mar 2026
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files.eric.ed.gov files.eric.ed.gov
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themanner in which Token spoke at the end of the exchange is nearly identical to the demands placed onstudents in Public Speaking classrooms.
shows how in professional public speaking classes, mother tongues/dialects are refused
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Token, all the great African American newspeople have learned to hide their Ebonictribespeak with a more pure Caucasian dialect. There’s no shame in it, and I really think it willhelp our ratings.
Enforcing the SAE for someone who speaks in their mother tongue
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Communication Education, the organization’s primaryjournal for pedagogical research, was at or near the bottom in every category. It had only 8% BIPOC firstauthors
BIOPIC: Black, Indigenous and People of Color
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