Supporting Ebonics as a teaching tool did not overturn the linguistic hierarchy

Evidence

Assimilationists who came around to supporting the teaching of “Standard English” using Ebonics did not come around to discarding the racist hierarchy that places “standard” or “proper” English above Ebonics. And this linguistic hierarchy existed across the Western world. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1171

Categorization

• DEFINE: Shows the boundary of assimilationism: accepting a minority practice as instrumental while keeping it subordinate to the ‘standard’ — central to placing arguments in Kendi’s three-way scheme.
• XREF: connects to: Mastering technical vocabulary does not overcome official disregard; Textbook dependence structurally silences non-dominant voices in classrooms — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 598