Research Guides: First Year Seminars: FYS 179 Language in a Multicultural America

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Black Talk: Words and Phrases from the Hood to the Amen Corner by Geneva Smitherman
Call Number: REF PE3102.N4 S65 2000
ISBN: 0395969190
Dictionary of American Regional English by Frederic G. Cassidy
Call Number: REF PE2843 .D52 1985
ISBN: 0674205111
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Juba to Jive by Clarence Major
Call Number: PE3727.N4 M34 1994
ISBN: 9780140513066
Publication Date: 1994-02-01

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