Journal Article

The objective of this single-class activity is to get students to make connections between Eurocentric standards of communication and African American Vernacular English (AAVE) through a womanist rhetorical lens. This activity sheds light on how professional, academic, and corporate communicative spaces tend to deflect and reject Black people based on the use of language patterns that resist hegemonic, classist, racist, and sexist communication styles. Students will reflect on the ways that their communication have (un)consciously oppressed communities within and outside their own. This activity’s goal is to get students to understand the importance of practicing diverse communication.