| Description | Charles Parker talks to Dan Fader, an American professor of English:
Track 1: Test tone, 0.14 mins
Tracks 2-7: Professor Dan Fader talks about his work teaching children language in order to enable them to take part in society.
Charlotte Brooks talks about her life and experiences of segregation and racism.
Track 8: Charlotte Brooks talks about her childhood in Mississippi and her experiences of segregation, 2.39 mins
Track 9: She talks about going to college with white people and realising that skin colour makes no difference, she says that she does not believe that education is a way out of the ghetto, 1.28 mins
Track 10: She talks about 'the ghastly suburbs' and contrasts them with the warmth in a small community; she talks about working as a school supervisor all over America, she talks about dialects in America and why she does not believe change will come about by changing language. She explains why she dislikes the dominant culture in America and she talks about people in the Mississippi Delta and talks about a woman she met in the Mississippi Delta, 3.45 mins
Track 11: She says that people in the Mississippi Delta are starving and talks about the history of the Mississippi Delta, and there is no work in the Delta, they talk about the importance of the train to 'negro people' and people wanting to escape to Memphis, 2.24 mins
Track 12: She describes shanties in the Mississippi Delta, and the poverty there, and says that middle-class culture is a fraud because the middle classes would like the people to disappear, 0.55 mins
Track 13: She says that she is interested in all people, and talks about hearing people in England talk about the 'drunken, dirty Irish' in the same way that some people in America talk about black people. She talks about political representation and says that Congressmen in the South play on white people's feelings of superiority, 2.22 mins
Track 14: She talks about giving Senator Stennis 'a long, level look' because she dislikes him, 0.57 mins
Track 15: She says that she grew up not knowing anything about Africa or slavery, that black people knew nothing about their history, but she says that recently young people have begun to demand black history for everybody, for white people too, she talks about Alex Haley's research into his family history, 2.19 mins
Track 16: she talks about meeting Alex Haley on a plane and arranging a meeting to talk about his research. She talks about black people not straightening their hair, 2.06 mins
Total: 32.37 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0668780 |