General introduction : perspectives on Black English / J.L. Dillard -- American linguistic geography : a sociological appraisal / Glenna Ruth Pickford -- Observations (1966) on the problems of defending Negro dialect / William A. Stewart -- Black American English and syntactic dialectology / Marvin D. Loflin -- Dialectology in generative grammar / Philip A. Luelsdorff -- Ain't, not, and don't in Black English / Joan G. Fickett -- Das Neger-Englisch an der westkuste von Afrika / P. Grade -- Negro English / J.A. Harrison -- A word-list from East Alabama / L.W. Payne, Jr. -- Some special West African English words ; A note on the words dash and ju-ju in West African English / Paul Christophersen -- Negro dialect / C.M. Wise -- Sociolinguistic factors in the history of American Negro dialects ; Continuity and change in American Negro dialects / Some aspects of English in Liberia / Ian F. Hancock -- Acculturation among the Gullah Negroes / William R. Bascom -- The writings of Herskovits and the study of the language of the Negro in the New World / Black kinesics : some non-verbal communication patterns in the black culture / Kenneth R. Johnson -- Classroom correction tests / William Labov, Clarence Robins, Paul Cohen, and John Lewis -- The learning of Black English by Puerto Ricans in New York City / Stuart Silverman -- A sociolinguistic consideration of the Black English of children in Northern Florida / Susan H. Houston -- White and Negro listeners' reactions to various American-English dialects / Wallace E. Lambert and G. Richard Tucker