Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- LANGUAGE AND POLITICS -- A Heightened Sense of Language as Educational and Social Critique -- The Social Responsibility That Writing Is- and Writing Instruction Too -- WORKS CITED -- LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE -- Genopsycholinguisticide and the Language Theme in African American Fiction -- WORKS CITED -- Tucept Highjohn and the Limits of Language Programming: A Coda -- WORKS CITED -- Julius and Jesse in 003 -- WORKS CITED -- LANGUAGE AND LEARNING -- One More Time for Professor Nuruddin -- OVERVIEW -- ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT -- LANGUAGE FEATURES -- Inflections -- Spelling -- EDUCATIONAL IMPLICATIONS -- WORKS CITED -- Language Learning and Democratic Development -- WORKS CITED -- African American in Process -- WORKS CITED -- LANGUAGE, RACISM, AND RESISTANCE -- A Legacy of Healing: Words, African Americans, and Power -- WORKS CITED -- Getting Off the Hook-I Mean Curve -- WORKS CITED -- A FINAL WORD -- Playing with the Patterns -- Index -- Backcover.