Language, Race, and the Legacies of the British Empire
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Description
This chapter discusses how throughout the former colonies of the British empire in Africa, as well as the Caribbean and the United States, the English language is a marker of a cultural legacy that many Africans and people of African descent have inherited, but also a legacy to which they have made an abiding contribution. It is of course a legacy that connects all people of the English-speaking Commonwealth, but in Africa in particular the legacy is more complicated and more contested than in most other parts of this world.
Source Publication
Black Experience and the Empire
Source Editors/Authors
Philip D. Morgan, Sean Hawkins
Publication Date
2004
Recommended Citation
Appiah, Kwame Anthony, "Language, Race, and the Legacies of the British Empire" (2004). Faculty Chapters. 142.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/142
