Preface
It is very difficult to begin acknowledging here all the people， places，
and things that are chiefly responsible for such an undertaking; but
the authors wish to thank some important people here without
whose help， inspiration， and dedication this book would have been
impossible. Thanks to Ron Hobbs， to whose urging to do the re-
search needed for such a work we finally succumbed. Thanks to
Lorenzo D. Turner， whose many years of study and many fine books
on black language made the research task easier. Thanks also to the
many p~ople who have done some initial work in the area of
black languages and black dialects. Especially inspiring were LeRoi
Jones s (Imamu Amiri Baraka s) Blues People， Lydia Parrish s
Slave Songs of the Georgia Sea Islands， Edward L. Tinker s Gombo
Comes to Philadelphia， Western Electric Company s audio presenta-
tion， \"The Dialect of the Black American，\" and William A. Stewart s
work at the Center for Applied Linguistics.
Thanks also to Barbara Schwartz， who typed the final draft and
to Amy Shelansky， Pat Bruce， and Bella Rosenberg， who gave of
their time and energy in research. And finally， to Kathy Benson， the
one person most responsible for pulling the manuscript together
into some literate， ~oherent form.
Hopefully， readers will not interpret the information presented
here as final authority; new discoveries are being made in this area
every day. Instead this should be viewed as an introductory work.
The authors take all responsibility for it.
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