General Introduction: Perspectives on Black English -- BLACK ENGLISH DIALECTOLOGY: THEORY, METHOD -- Introduction -- American Linguistic Geography: A Sociological Appraisal -- Observations (1966) on the Problems of Defining Negro Dialect -- Black American English and Syntactic Dialectology -- Dialectology in Generative Grammar -- Ain't, Not, and Don't in Black English -- THE HISTORY OF BLACK ENGLISH -- Introduction -- The Religious Intelligencer (1821), Excerpts -- Das Neger-Englisch an der Westküste von Afrika -- Negro English -- A Word-List from East Alabama -- Some Special West African English Words -- A Note on the Words dash and ju-ju in West African English -- Negro Dialect -- Sociolinguistic Factors in the History of American Negro Dialects -- Continuity and Change in American Negro Dialects -- Some Aspects of English in Liberia -- Appendix: Liberian English of Cape Palmas (with Piayon E. Kobbah) -- BLACK ENGLISH AND THE ACCULTURATION PROCESS -- Introduction -- Acculturation Among the Gullah Negroes -- The Writings of Herskovits and the Study of the Language of the Negro in the New World -- Black Kinesics - Some Non-Verbal Communication Patterns in the Black Culture -- BLACK ENGLISH AND PSYCHOLINGUISTICS -- Introduction -- Classroom Correction Tests -- The Learning of Black English by Puerto Ricans in New York City -- A Sociolinguistic Consideration of the Black English of Children in Northern Florida -- White and Negro Listeners' Reactions to Various American-English Dialects -- References for the Introductions -- Index.