Introduction
Discourse analysis and its discontents
Disadvantage : a brief overview
Disadvantage : the genetic case
Disadvantage : the environmental case
The language debate
The persistence of linguistic deficit
Evaluative reactions to the language of disadvantage
Black English as Ebonics
'Foreign' languages in the classroom
Multiculturalism and multicultural education
Bilingualism : a very brief overview
Bilingual education
A concluding statement.