The Black Side of the River: Race, Language, and Belonging in Washington, DC - Hardcover
The Black Side of the River: Race, Language, and Belonging in Washington, DC - Hardcover
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by Jessica A. Grieser (Author)
In The Black Side of the River, sociolinguist Jessi Grieser draws on ten years of interviews with dozens of residents of Anacostia-a historically Black neighborhood in Washington, DC-to explore the impact of urban change on Black culture, identity, and language. Grieser's work is a call to center Black lived experiences in urban research.
Author Biography
Jessi Grieser is an assistant professor of rhetoric, writing, and linguistics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She is a sociolinguist who specializes in discourse analysis, geosemiotics, and sociophonetics.
