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Oakland Ebonics resolution
On December 18, 1996 the
Oakland Unified School District
school board of
Oakland
,
California
,
United States
passed a controversial resolution recognizing the legitimacy of
Ebonics
— what mainstream linguists more commonly term
African American Vernacular English
(AAVE) — as an African
language
. The resolution set off a firestorm of media criticism and ignited a national debate.
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