Videos
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This YouTube video is of an interview analyzing the testimony of Rachel Jeantel, a close friend of Trayvon Martin and the star witness in the George Zimmerman trial, and why it is an example of how speakers of African American Vernacular English and other dialects are misunderstood, disbelieved, or otherwise unfairly evaluated in courts, schools, and other settings.
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This YouTube video is of Professor Mary Zeigler of Georgia University talking about the influence that African Americans have had on the development of American English and her students discussing the importance of their own language as an expression of their cultural identity.
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This YouTube video is of a clip from the documentary "Do you speak American?", which demonstrates how many California schools use the knowledge and structure of African American Vernacular English (AAVE or Ebonics) in the classroom as a tool for teaching children in the wake of the Oakland School Board's resolution to the Ebonics debate in 1996.
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This YouTube video is of clip from the documentary "Do you speak American?", in which linguist John Baugh discusses how linguistic profiling is often used as a means of discrimination.
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This YouTube video is an introduction to African American Vernacular English (AAVE). |
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This YouTube video is a short film about what the movie Black Panther meant to an African American woman.
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This YouTube video is an example of what it is like for students when they are in an ESL classroom.
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