# The Real Ebonics Debate

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- Book: [The Real Ebonics Debate](https://www.bookquiver.com/theresa-perry/the-real-ebonics-debate) ([The Real Ebonics Debate.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/theresa-perry/the-real-ebonics-debate.md))
- Authors: [Theresa Perry](https://www.bookquiver.com/theresa-perry), [Lisa Delpit](https://www.bookquiver.com/lisa-delpit)
- Publisher: beacon_press
- ISBN: 978-08-0703-145-2
- Pages: 242
- Published: 1998-06-17
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the winter of 1996, the Oakland school board's resolution recognizing Ebonics as a valid linguistic system generated a brief firestorm of hostile criticism and misinformation, then faded from public...