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 | Spoken Soul: The Story of Black English (Updated Edition) by John Russell Rickford, Geneva Smitherman (Foreword) Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2000 ISBN-10: 0-471-39957-4 / 0471399574 ISBN-13: 978-0-471-39957-5 / 9780471399575 In 1996, an America Online poll about Ebonics sparked more responses than did its survey on O.J. Simpson. And that's just a taste of the controversy and debate that Black English has provoked over the years. Called "Spoken Soul" by Claude Brown, author of Manchild in the Promised Land, the dialect o | |