Citations:Black

English citations of Black

• 1986, Chaya Shalom, “The only dyke from Israel”, in Off Our Backs, volume 16, number 8, →JSTOR, page 26:

  A group of Black women came in later but only observed from the sidelines.

• 1999, Geoffrey K. Pullum, “African American Vernacular English Is Not Standard English with Mistakes”, in Rebecca S. Wheeler, editor, The Workings of Language, →ISBN, page 40:

  Buried among the jargon of the announcement was a mention of a name for AAVE, suggested by a Black scholar in 1975^[sic] but never adopted by linguists: Ebonics. That word, concocted from ebony (a color term from the name of a dark-colored wood) and phonics (the name of a method for teaching reading), was destined to attach to the board as if chiseled into a block of granite and hung round their necks.

• 2020 May 31, “Violence, destruction mar Seattle protests over the death of George Floyd”, in The Seattle Times‎^[1], page A1:

  Hundreds of Seattle protesters came together Saturday to voice the sadness and fury that has spread across the country over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died after being pinned beneath the knee of a Minneapolis police officer for almost nine minutes.

• 2023 February 27, David Bauder, “Rapid demise of ‘Dilbert’ is no surprise to those watching”, in AP News‎^[2], archived from the original on 28 February 2023:

  Adams, who is white, was an outspoken presence on social media long before describing Black people as a “hate group” on YouTube and, to some, “Dilbert” had strayed from its roots as a chronicler of office culture.