Selected Publications

H. Samy Alim

• 2011. Alim, H. Samy and Angela Reyes. (eds.) Complicating Race: Articulating Race across Multiple Social Dimensions. Special issue of Dicsourse & Society. 22(4), June.
• 2011. Alim, H. Samy, Jooyoung Lee & Lauren Mason Carris. Moving the crowd, ‘crowding’ the emcee: The coproduction and contestation of Black normativity in freestyle rap battles. Discourse & Society 22(4).
• 2011. Alim, H. Samy. Global Ill-literacies: Hip Hop Cultures, youth identities, and the politics of literacy. Review of Research in Education.
• 2011. Alim, H. Samy and Imani Perry. Lost in translation: Language, race, and the DEA’s legitimization of Ebonics. Anthropology News. Journal for the American Anthropological Association.
• 2011. Alim, H. Samy. Hip Hop and the politics of ill-literacy. In Mica Pollock & Bradley Levinson (eds.), Companion to Anthropology of Education. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
• 2010. Alim, H. Samy and Marjorie H. Goodwin. “Whatever (neck roll, suckteeth, eyeball roll)”: Transmodal stylization and stance display in preadolescent girls’ argumentative talk in school. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 20(1): 179-194.
• 2010. Alim, H. Samy, Jooyoung Lee & Lauren Mason Carris. ‘Short, fried-rice-eating Chinese emcees’ and ‘good-hair-havin Uncle Tom niggas’: Performing race and ethnicity in freestyle rap battles. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 20(1): 116-133.
• 2010. Alim, H. Samy. Critical language awareness. In Nancy Hornberger and Sandra McKay (eds.), Sociolinguistics and Language Education. Bristol: Multilingual Matters, pp. 205-231.
• 2009. Alim, H. Samy, Awad Ibrahim & Alastair Pennycook. (eds.) Global Linguistic Flows: Hip Hop Cultures, Youth Identities, and the Politics of Language. London & NY: Routledge.
• 2009. Alim, H. Samy. Translocal style communities: Hip Hop youth as theorists of style, language, and globalization. Pragmatics 19(1): 111-135.
• 2007. Alim, H. Samy and John Baugh. (eds.) Talkin Black Talk: Language, Education and Social Change. New York: Teachers College Press, Columbia University. 176 pgs.
• 2006. Roc the Mic Right: The Language of Hip Hop Culture. London & New York: Routledge, 208 pgs.
• 2006. Spady, James G., H. Samy Alim and Samir Meghelli. Tha Global Cipha: Hip Hop Culture and Consciousness. Philadelphia, PA: Black History Museum Press, 704 pgs.
• 2004. Alim, H. Samy. You Know My Steez: An Ethnographic and Sociolinguistic Study of Styleshifting in a Black American Speech Community. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 303 pgs.
• 1999. Spady, James G., H. Samy Alim and Charles G. Lee (Art Director). Street Conscious Rap. Philadelphia, PA: Black History Museum Press, 592 pgs.

Arnetha F. Ball

• 2011. Ball, A. F. & Tyson, C. A. (Eds.) Studying Diversity in Teacher Education. Washington, DC: AERA Publication.
• 2010. Ball, A.F., Skilton, A., & Martinez, R. Addressing the needs of students in culturally and linguistically complex Language Arts classrooms. In J. Flood, J. M. Jensen, D. Lapp, & J. R. Squire (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Teaching the English Language Arts. New York: Macmillan.
• 2009. Ball, A F. Toward a theory of generative change in culturally and linguistically complex classrooms. American Educational Research Journal, 46(1). NY: AERA Publication.
• 2006. Ball, A. F. (Ed.). With More Deliberate Speed: Achieving Equity and Excellence in Education. NSSE 2006 Yearbook: National Society for the Study of Education. Williston, VT: Blackwell Publishing.
• 2006. Ball, A. F. Multicultural strategies for education and social change: Carriers of the Torch in the US and South Africa. NY: Teachers College Press.
• 2006. Ball, A. F. Teaching writing in culturally diverse classrooms. In C. A. MacArthur, S. Graham, and J. Fitzgerald (Eds.), Handbook of Writing Research, pp. 293-310. New York: Guilford.
• 2005. Ball, A. F. Culture and language: Bidialectal issues in literacy. In J. Flood and P. Anders (Ed.), Literacy development of students in urban schools: Research and policy, pp. 275-287. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.
• 2005. Ball, A. F. & Lardner, T. African American Literacies Unleashed: Vernacular English and the Composition Classroom. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press.
• 2004. Ball, A.F & Freedman, S.W. Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language, Literacy, and Learning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• 2003. Makoni, S., Smitherman, G., Ball, A. F., & Spears, A. K. (Eds.) Black Linguistics: Language, Society and Politics in Africa and the Americas. NY: Routledge Press.
• 2003. Ball, A.F. Cultural preference and the expository writing of African-American adolescents [reprint]. In N. Norment (Ed.), Readings in African American language: Aspects, features, and perspectives, pp. 293-321. Peter Lang Publishers.
• 2003. Ball, A. F. & Farr, M. Evaluating the writing of culturally and linguistically diverse students: The case of the African American Vernacular English speaker. In C. R. Cooper & L. Odell (Eds.), Evaluating writing: The role of teachers' knowledge about text, learning, and culture, pp. 225-248. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English Press.
• 2002. Ball, A.F. & Lardner, T. Dispositions toward literacy: Constructs of teacher knowledge and the Ann Arbor Black English case [reprint]. In Johnson & Morahan (Eds.), Teaching Composition: Background Readings, pp. 485-502. NY: Bedford/St. Martins Press.
• 2000. Ball, A.F. Empowering pedagogies that enhance the learning of multicultural students. Teachers College Record, 102(6), 1006-1034.
• 1995. Ball, A.F. Investigating language, learning, and linguistic competence of African-American children: Torrey revisited. Linguistics and Education, 7(1), 23-46.

John R. Rickford

• 2012. African American, Creoles and Other English Vernaculars in Education: A Bibliographical Resource. (With Julie Sweetland, Angela E. Rickford and Tom Grano.) New York: Taylor and Francis/ Routledge and National Council of Teachers of English.
• 2012. Language, Culture and Caribbean Identity. (Co-edited, with Jeannette Allsopp.) Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press.
• 2012. “mi en noo (Me ain’ know): Social and Linguistic Constraints on Language Variation.” In Jeannette Allsopp and John R. Rickford, eds., Language, Culture and Caribbean Identity. Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press.
• 2011. “Variation and Change in Our Living Language.” Revised introductory essay, and “Living Language” notes, in The American Heritage Dictionary, 5th ed., xiii-xix. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
• 2011. “Le Page’s theoretical and applied legacy in sociolinguistics and creole studies.” In Variation in the Caribbean, ed. by Lars Hinrichs and Joseph Farquharson, 251-271. Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
• 2011. Relativizer omission in Anglophone Caribbean Creoles, Appalachian, and African American Vernacular English. In Language from a Cognitive Perspective: Grammar, Usage and Processing (Studies in Honor of Thomas Wasow), ed. by Emily M. Bender and Jennifer E. Arnold, 139-160. Stanford: CSLI Publications.
• 2010. “The sociolinguistics of a short-loved innovation: Tracing the development of quotative all across spoken and internet newsgroup data.” (With Isabelle Buchstaller, Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Thomas Wasow, and Arnold Zwicky.) Language Variation and Change 22:191-220.
• 2010. “Geographical diversity, residential segregation, and the vitality of AAVE and its speakers’.” Transforming Anthropology 18.1: 28-34. (Special issue on Languages and speakers: Confronting endangerment, seeking equality, ed. by Arthur Spears).
• 2009. “From outside agitators to inside implementers: Improving the literacy education of vernacular and creole speakers.” (With Angela E. Rickford.) In Ethnolinguistic Diversity and Literacy Education, ed. by Marcia Farr and Lisya Seloni, 241-259. London: Routledge.
• 2009. “White Paper on African American Vernacular English [AAVE] and its Relevance to Elementary School Teachers of Reading and the Language Arts in the USA.” (With Angela E. Rickford.) For SRA/McGraw Hill in connection with the launch of their new Imagine It! readers, for which we served as language consultants.
• 2009. "AAVE/Creole copula absence: A critique of the imperfect learning hypothesis." (With Devyani Sharma.) Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages 24.1:53-92.
• 2007. "Variation, versatility, and contrastive analysis in the classroom.” (With Angela E. Rickford.) In Sociolinguistic Variation: Theories, Methods and Applications, ed. by Robert Bayley and Ceil Lucas, 276-96. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• 2004. Language in the USA: Themes for the Twenty-First Century. (Co-editedwith Edward Finegan). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• 2000. Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English. (With Russell J. Rickford) New York: John Wiley. [Winner of a 2000 American Book Award]
• 1999. African American Vernacular English: Features, Evolution, Educational Implications. Malden, MA: Blackwell.