Oxford Dictionary of African American English - Representation and identity 1 @OxfordLanguages

Uploaded May 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

This clip is an excerpt from the Oxford Dictionary of African American English: First 100 words virtual event that happened on 23 March 2023 (youtu.be/_A89Of-k0Ng).

The Oxford Dictionary of African American English (ODAAE) is a joint project of Oxford Languages (Oxford University Press) and Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research.

The project is spearheaded by Prof Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Editor-in-Chief, Director of the Center, and Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard. It is a project is funded in part by grants from the Mellon (mellon.org/) and Wagner Foundations (www.wfound.org).

Read more about it:
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