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Linguistic Segregation
Quinn, Jim | November 9, 1985 issue

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Racism is growing in the U.S. "It's not just some heritage of our terrible past, - and it's not disappearing. It's being created right now," says William Labov, a linguist at the University of Pennsylvania. "There's a growing black middle class, we know. But the number of blacks who are isolated and poor is - greater than ever-blacks who never see a white except as teacher or cop, or a performer on radio and television. Most blacks and most whites in this society are growing further and further apart." Labov has no trouble documenting this claim. He does it by analyzing the speech patterns of blacks and whites in the city of Philadelphia, something he's been doing for more than a decade.

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RACISM; LABOV, William; RACE discrimination; BLACKS; WHITES; ETHNIC groups; UNITED States
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