7 - Richard Pierpoint and AAVE

This week, in honour of Black History Month, Sienna and Savannah teach each other something about Black history! Find all of our sources below, please go directly to these sources and more to do further learning, and when you are able send money to the Black people that are educating you online! Sienna’s Sources: General Research: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/the-coloured-corps-african-canadians-and-the-war-of-1812 https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/culture/clmhc-hsmbc/res/information-backgrounder/richard-pierpoint https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/black-history-month/transcript-black-soldiers-fight-canada.html Black History Month short interview with scholars: https://www.tvo.org/video/bringing-overlooked-canadian-black-history-to-the-fore This American Life - Talking While Black: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/758/talking-while-black Docushort about a family’s black Canadian heritage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCg1t3mdWwM&list=LL&index=2&t=633s Savannah’s Sources: 28 Moments of Black Canadian History: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLT9MbfNkf-UjoR-4wYeVWxiyxoIxQPlXF theGrio: Video by Opiniated AF Danielle Young "AAVE is not Internet Culture": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_lyirTiedU&ab_channel=theGrio So Much Modern Slang Is AAVE. Here’s How Language Appropriation Erases The Influence Of Black Culture - By Sydnee Thompson https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/sydneethompson/aave-language-appropriation Sydnee’s Article links this Source as well: A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part 1 https://www.wired.com/story/black-twitter-oral-history-part-i-coming-together/ AAVE Explained: A Dialect That Transcends Internet Culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnOLKqhx_Co&ab_channel=BabbelUSA IT’S TIME TO STOP USING AAVE IF YOU’RE NOT BLACK - By Nina Doyle: https://www.hercampus.com/school/bu/it-s-time-stop-using-aave-if-you-re-not-black/ The etiquette of whether to say ‘YAS QUEEN’ (Cicely-Belle Blain Quote): https://www.thestar.com/vancouver/2019/02/28/the-etiquette-of-when-to-say-yaas-queen.html#:~:text=The%20phrase%2C%20which%20is%20a,used%20by%20Black%20trans%20women.