The Black Side of the River: Race, Language, and Belonging in Washington, DC by Grieser, Jessica A.
The Black Side of the River: Race, Language, and Belonging in Washington, DC by Grieser, Jessica A.

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The Black Side of the River: Race, Language, and Belonging in Washington, DC

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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.



Author: Jessica A. Grieser
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Published: 02/01/2022
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.9lbs
Size: 9.13h x 5.98w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781647121525

About the Author

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.