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Hey /lit/ can you recommend me some fun books with ebonics? i want to learn the american slang, yes i am foreigner but i want to be familiar with the lenguage when i visit the USA.

>> No.6856873

>>6856871
Native son

>> No.6856875

Wardine say her momma aint treat her right. Reginald he come round to my blacktop at my building where me and Delores Epps jump double dutch and he say, Clenette, Wardine be down at my crib cry say her momma aint treat her right, and I go on with Reginald to his building where he live at, and Wardine be sit deep far back in a closet in Reginald crib, and she be cry.

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>>6856871
There's a chapter early on in Infinite Jest that suits your needs perfectly. Lots of fun with ebonics.

If you want old-school ebonics, try "Pimp" by Iceberg Slim.

>> No.6856885

If you read any Kate Chopin short stories, she gets pretty silly with the dialects of her Negro characters. Then again, her stories are pretty much always in New Orleans so the whites are Cajuns and accordingly talk funny

>> No.6856929

>>6856879
God that pic always sends me into a depression.

I need to print that out and fill it in to motivate myself.

>> No.6856949

>>6856871
Make sure to call the black people "nigga" as a recognition of their heritage. These very polite people will bend over backwards to help you after you show that sign of respect

>> No.6857019

>>6856885
>New Orleans
>Cajun

>> No.6857040

>>6856871
Why is black twitter so much better than white twitter?

>> No.6858237

>>6856875
IJ?

>> No.6858259
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>>6856871
Pic related. It's an autobiographical work by a black pimp who came up in the 1940s. It's actually a good book, nicely written, gives entrance in an otherwise relatively obscure part of culture, time and history and with Slim being smart as fuck you also get some insight into controlling whores and the psychology behind it.

He was also a major influence in hip hop culture.

>> No.6858276

>>6856875
Did he actually think black people talk this way or was it in jest?

>> No.6858284

>>6857040
This is a good fuckin' question. Perhaps there is a greater sense of original culture amongst African Americans (White culture is primarily just a bunch of kids doing boring shit and copying black slang), so there is more context to play around with in the creation of humour.

>> No.6858578

>>6857040
Racism is funny. Whites aren't allowed to be racist any more.

>> No.6858580

>>6858276
I think the implication is that Clenette is mentally challenged and/or a child.

>> No.6858648

I remember this meme book from /b/ that was in Ebonics. Not sure what it was called.

>> No.6858663

>>6858648
Was it the Trayvon Martin one that focused on what his life would be like if he didn't die and had things like his dad sucking dick for crack?

>> No.6858704

>>6856929
My sister did that. She also added important events from her past

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>>6858663
This one