Negotiating elite talk [electronic resource] : language, race, class, and identity among African American high-schoolers / John Taggart Clark.

First published 2009 by St. Jerome Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [152]-161).

1. Ways of talk : abstract/speculative inquiry and concrete/empirical inquiry -- 2. Successful failure & cultural differences : a brief history of scrutinizing African American experiences with schooling -- 3. Negotiating abstract/speculative inquiry in a street law class -- 4. From abstract/speculative inquiry to elite inquiry : how a way of talk gets its power, class, and colours -- 5. Student accommodation to elite inquiry : can't learn or won't learn? -- 6. Promoting accommodation : lessons from street law.

Also available in print edition.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.