Damn the Man!: Slang of the Oppressed in America by Tom Dalzell

Damn the Man!: Slang of the Oppressed in America

Tom Dalzell

208 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

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Language plays an important role in the culture of dissent, and slang can serve as a means of defiance and liberation. "It is no accident that the liveliest language in America is often the product of the ghetto, shtetl, slum, barrio, barracks, an...

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