My Soul Look Back in Wonder av Geneva Napoleon Smitherman

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<b><p></p></b><p>This is the story of Dr. Geneva Smitherman, aka "Dr. G," the pioneering linguist often referred to as the "Queen of Black Language." In a series of narrative essays, Dr. G writes eloquently and powerfully about the role of language in social transformation and the academic, intellectual, linguistic, and societal debates that shaped her groundbreaking work as a Black Studies O.G. and a Womanist scholar-activist of African American Language.</p><p></p><p>These eleven essays narrate the development of Dr. G''s race, gender, class, and linguistic consciousness as a member of the Black Power Generation of the 1960s and 70s. In <i>My Soul Look Back In Wonder</i>, Dr. G links the personal to the professional and the political, situating the struggles, and successes, of a Black woman in the Academy within the historical experiences and development of her people.</p><p></p><p>As Dr. G enters her eighth decade, in this Black Lives Matter historical moment, she seeks to share the