| Description | Charles Parker talks to Charlotte Brooks.
Track 1: Charlotte Brooks talks about the curfew in Washington after the shooting of Martin Luther King, and the arrest of 3000 people and discusses whether people should have the chance to speak the dominant language, 1.27 mins
Track 2: She tells Charles Parker stories of three incidents involving prejudice from middle-class white people, 2.42 mins
Track 3: They talk about the effects of incidents like this on people, and how correcting a child's language can kill a child, and she talks about her own experiences at school, 2.10 mins
Track 4: she tells a story of a teacher not understanding a child's Southern American dialect, children learning 'non-standard' English, and talks about her friend who is studying creole languages, 3.50 mins
Track 5: they talk about the use of the double negative, she recites the poem 'I Can't Be Talking of Love'. Charles Parker asks what she thinks a white audience in the West End should know about the slave trade, she says what she thinks people should know about the slave trade, 1.58 mins
Track 6: Charles Parker talks about a Nigerian woman he interviewed and talks about the legacy of the slave trade in Africa, she says that many young people in America believe that they will be exterminated and they need to be ready to fight back, 2.39 mins
Track 7: She talks about not being able to understand why the situation in America has to happen, 1.27 mins
Track 8: She talks about being able to afford to take care of several children in Mississippi. Charles Parker talks about the need to confront the whole system. She says that it would be possible to give food to poor people in America and South Africa, 1.32 mins
Track 9: they talk about the need to confront prejudice and the need to consider southern dialect non-standard, 1.05 mins
Track 10: They talk about speaking the language of the streets; she gives an example, which Charles Parker doesn't understand, 1.52 mins
Track 11: Charlotte Brooks asks whether her command of standard speech alienates her from the people of the ghetto - she says it doesn't. She talks about 'the stupid teacher approach', 2.56 mins
Track 12: She talks about celebrating the Fourth of July with a class of children she taught in Dame Elizabeth Cadbury School, Bournville, 1.39 mins
Track 13: She talks about meeting West Indians in England, who are not happy and are developing 'hardened attitudes' because of prejudice, and about the use of the word 'coloured' in England and America, 2.42 mins
Track 14: She talks about white people fearing black people and Black Power in America, 2.21 mins
Track 15: She talks about white liberals' attitudes and says we should help the poor people 'on both sides', 2.13 mins
Total: 32.42 mins
Dubber's reference number: PLA KF565D0668580 |