The Oxford handbook of African American language

Pt. I. Origins and historical perspectives

The English Origins Hypothesis / Gerard Van Herk .

The Creole Origins Hypothesis / John R. Rickford.

The Emergence of African American English: Monogenetic or Polygenetic? With or Without "Decreolization"? Under How Much Substrate Influence? / Salikoko S. Mufwene.

Onthe Origins of African American Vernacular English: Beginnings / Donald Winford.

African American English Over Yonder: The Language of the Liberian Settler Community / John Victor Singler.

Documenting the History of African American Vernacular English: A Survey and Assessment of Sources and Results / Edgar W. Schneider.

Regionality in the Development of African American English / Walt Wolfram and Mary E. Kohn.

pt. II. Lects and variation

The Place of Gullah in the African American Linguistic Continuum / Tracey L. Weldon and Simanique Moody.

Rural African American Vernacular English / Patricia Cukor-Avila and Guy Bailey.

African American English in the Mississippi Delta: A Case Study of Copula Absence and /r/-Lessness in the Speech of Black Women in Coahoma County / Rose Wilkerson.

African American Voices in Atlanta William A. Kretzschmar.

African American Language in Pittsburgh and the Lower Susqueshanna Valley / Jennifer Bloomquist and Shelome Gooden.

African American Phonology in a Philadelphia Community / William Labov and Sabriya Fisher.

African American Vernacular English In California: Four Plus Decades Of Vibrant Variationist Research / John R. Rickford.

The Black American Sign Language Project: An Overview / Joseph Hill, Carolyn McCaskill, Robert Bayley, and Ceil Lucas.

The Sociolinguistic Construction of African American Language / Walt Wolfram .

pt. III. Structure and description

Syntax and Semantics / Lisa J. Green and Walter Sistrunk.

The Systematic Marking of Tense, Modality and Aspect in African American Language / Charles E. DeBose.

On the Syntax-Prosody Interface in African American Language / James A. Walker.

Segmental Phonology of African American English / Erik R. Thomas and Guy Bailey.

Prosodic Features of African American English / Erik R. Thomas.

pt. IV. Child language acquisition and development

Language Acquisition in the African American Child: Prior to Age Four / Brandi L. Newkirk-Turner, RaMonda Horton, and Ida J. Stockman.

The Development of African American English through Childhood and Adolescence / Janneke Van Hofwegen.

Development of Variation / Lisa J. Green and Jessica White-Sustaíta .

Narrative Structures of African American Children: Commonalities and Differences / Tempii B. Champion and Allyssa McCabe.

Some Similarities and Differences between African American English and Southern White English in Children / Janna B. Oetting.

Contemporary Approaches and Perspectives for Assessing Young and School-Age AAE Child Speakers / Toya A. Wyatt .

African American Language and Black Poetry / Howard Rambsy II and Briana Whiteside .

African American Divas of Comedy: Staking a Claim in Public Space / Jacquelyn Rahman.

The Construction of Ethnicity via Voicing: African American English in Children's Animated Film / Jennifer Bloomquist.

SWB: (Speaking while Black or Speaking while Brown): Linguistic Profiling and Discrimination Based on Speech as a Surrogate for Race in International Perspective / John Baugh.

pt. V. Education

pt. VI. Language in society

pt. VII. Language and identity. Racializing Language: Unpacking Linguistic Approaches to Attitudes about Race and Speech / Kate T. Anderson.

African American Standard English / Arthur K. Spears.

African American English in the Middle Class / Erica Britt and Tracey L. Weldon.

African American Women's Language: Mother Tongues Untied / Marcyliena Morgan.

Black Masculine Language / David E. Kirkland.

Hip Hop Nation Language: Localization and Globalization / H.Samy Alim.

African American Language and Identity: Contradictions and Conundrums / Sonja L. Lanehart