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AAVE RESOURCES

Helpful articles, blogs, and videos examining the orgins and cultural implications of African American Vernacular English.

What is AAVE?

Blog post by Taylor Jones breaking down the basic points about the dialect of African American Vernacular English.

The Online Journal on African American English

Website run by Proessor Renee Blake of the NYU Department of Linguistics and her students. 

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Do you speak American?

Series of articles and videos by PBS exploring the origins and cultural history of AAVE.

If Black English Isn't a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?

Essay by James Baldwin for the NY Times.

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