... African Americans in Davenport, Iowa.9 Weaver (2000) presented an acoustic description of the vocalic and postvocalic /r/ of child and adult speakers in the Mid-South region within one-hundred miles of Memphis. Fletcher's (2002) rhotic ...

Offers a set of diverse analyses of traditional and contemporary work on language structure and use in African American communities.

Free Boy is the story of a 13-year-old slave who escaped from Washington Territory to freedom in Canada on the West's underground railroad.