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Oxford University Press To Publish Dictionary Of African American English

Oxford University Press and Harvard University are collaborating to create the Oxford Dictionary of African American English (ODAAE). Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Director of Harvard University’s Hutchins ...
The New York Times

Hip, Woke, Cool: It’s All Fodder For the Oxford Dictionary of African American English

The new lexicon, with Henry Louis Gates Jr. as editor in chief, will collect definitions and histories of words. “The bottom line of the African American people,” Gates said, is “these are people who ...