This book explores, in a unique manner, language experience in standard and non-standard English. It is addressed both to problems of language use and to investigations of research issues. It aims at explanations of language differences and at an understanding of language difficulties. Reviewing the various ways in which black experience in the United States has been treated in social science, the authors offer true ethnography of a heretofore undocumented area.Book in very good condition, tight, clean text appears to have been barely read. DJ in good condition, has small tear with no loss to top of spine and has some light staining and shelfware.