Uploaded March 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
The Oxford Dictionary of African American English (ODAAE), a joint project of Oxford Languages (Oxford University Press) and Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, is now well underway, and the first 100 entries have recently been completed.
The project is spearheaded by Prof Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Editor-in-Chief, Director of the Center, and Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard.
Watch a presentation of the project’s progress, followed by a Q&A session.
Agenda:
• Where we are one year into the project
• How did we get here? The roles people played in uncovering and recording words
• Some examples of the entries already finished
• Q&A
This project is funded in part by grants from the Mellon (mellon.org/) and Wagner Foundations (www.wfound.org). Read more about it:
public.oed.com/oxford-dictionary-of-african-american-english
The Oxford Dictionary of African American English (ODAAE), a joint project of Oxford Languages (Oxford University Press) and Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, is now well underway, and the first 100 entries have recently been completed.
The project is spearheaded by Prof Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Editor-in-Chief, Director of the Center, and Alphonse Fletcher University Professor at Harvard.
Watch a presentation of the project’s progress, followed by a Q&A session.
Agenda:
• Where we are one year into the project
• How did we get here? The roles people played in uncovering and recording words
• Some examples of the entries already finished
• Q&A
This project is funded in part by grants from the Mellon (mellon.org/) and Wagner Foundations (www.wfound.org). Read more about it:
public.oed.com/oxford-dictionary-of-african-american-english
