- "Race in the United States is at once an utter illusion and a material reality, a fictuion and a 'scientific' fact. It is structured by legislation yet destabilzed by judicial fiat, shaped by public opinion but also configured by academic consensus" (Baker 1998: 1).
- A person's perception of Blackness depends on personal reflection (Thomas & Campt 2007: 51).
- "...refers to a communicative exchange that is negotiated among individuals or between groups in ways that gender, ethnicity, or class identifications become strategic" (Page 1988: 163).
- "The grammatical developments we have traced are essentially characteristics of these large urban speech communities, where African Americans are heavily concentrated in homogeneous neighborhoods" (Labov 2010: 17).
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Page, H.E. (1988). Dialogic principles of interactive learning in the ethnographic relationship. Journal of Anthropological Research, 55(2), 163-181.
Thomas & Campt, D.A. & T.M. (2007). Diasporic hegemonies: popular culture and transnational blackness. Transforming Anthropology, 15(1), 50-62.
