Webinar: https://ucisocsci.zoom.us/j/91739581840

Film screening + Q&A with the filmmaker
Film: https://youtu.be/8QFpVgPl9tQ 

Talking Black in America addresses African American English and language-based discrimination. Filmmaker Dr. Walt Wolfram will screen the film. He is the William C. Friday Distiniguished University Professor at North Carolina State University. He is a leader in the study of social and ethnic dialects, and has pioneered the study of urban African American English, supporting the legitimacy of African American English as a systematic language system. 

 

 

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