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Geneva Smitherman lecture, "The Black Idiom," at the University of Iowa, February 13, 1974

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Recorded February 13th, 1974, as part of the Black Kaleidoscope Three Cultural Series at the University of Iowa. The Black Idiom is the subject of this address by Geneva Smitherman, a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at Wayne State University. Introducing Professor Smitherman is Wilson Moses, an instructor in the Department of History at the University of Iowa. Contact the University of Iowa Archives at https://www.lib.uiowa.edu/sc/contact/ Open Reel digitized by The MediaPreserve with Studer Master Recorder to uncompressed 24-bit/96 kHz WAV file.
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University of Iowa Libraries. University Archives (host institution)
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Idioms
  3. Speech Acts (Linguistics)

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