Henry Louis Gates Jr. to oversee new Oxford Dictionary of African American English

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Historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. announced this week that he will oversee the new Oxford Dictionary of African American English as editor-in-chief. The first version is expected to publish in three years.

Gates, who serves as director of Harvard's Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, proposed the new dictionary as a joint venture of the Oxford University Press and the Hutchins Center after he was approached about the representation

of African American English in existing Oxford dictionaries,The three-year research project is funded by grants from the Mellon and Wagner Foundations and aims to serve as a record of African American English, collecting definitions and histories of words.

 

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Can someone define AfAm English and a few words?

Is he an historian?

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