The Linguistics of AAVE

It's about time I address linguistic prescriptivism.

Links to things I didn't make that are in this video:
Intro song:  "Flight of the Breezies" by Kadenza
Kadenza - Flight of the Breezies
Outro song:  "Mach Speed" by FlightRush
FlightRush - Mach Speed

Map of race in Chicago by Bill Rankin
http://www.radicalcartography.net/ind...
A cool video he made about it:
Mapping Social Statistics - Race and ...

Map of dialects of North American English:
http://aschmann.net/AmEng/

Photo of Los Angeles by Nserrano:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Ang...
Photo of New York by Anthony Quintano:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/quintan...
Photo of Chicago by J. Crocker:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Photo of a swamp in Mississippi by Gary Bridgman:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississ...
Anonymous painting of slaves on a South-Carolina plantation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery...
Picture of a slave ship:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunny_S...

Screen shots of websites used were from here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languag...
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictio...

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