1. Foreword–John Baugh

2. Preface: Real Talk–H. Samy Alim

3. Shout Outs

4. Introduction: You Know My Steez

5. Designing Sociolinguistic Research On Speech Style

6. How The Other Half Speaks: Ethnosensitivity And The Shifting Roles Of The Researcher

7. "This Is Corporate America Takin Over": Schooling, Survival, And The Sociohistorical Context Of Life In The Occupied Territories

8. We Some Baaaddddd Styleshifters: The Copula In Stylistic Variation

9. Our Steelo Switch Up: Third-Person Singular -S, Possessive -S, And Plural -S Absence

10. We Be Word Sorcerers: Invariant Be And The Equative Copula In BL

11. It Take Two To Make A Thing Go Riiiiight: Examining Interaction In The Coconstruction Of Style

12. The Gentrification Of Speech And Speakers: Black Language In White Public Space

13. Appendix A: Transcript Of One Semistructured Conversation

14. Appendix B: Ssc Questions: Hiphopography Conversations

15. Appendix C: Coding Keys

16. References

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