The linguistic facts of life -- Language in motion -- The myth of non-accent -- The standard language myth -- Language subordination -- The educational system: fixing the message in stone -- Teaching children how to discriminate: (what we learn from the Big Bad Wolf) -- The information industry -- Real people with a real language: the workplace and the judicial system -- The real trouble with Black language -- Hillbillies, hicks, and Southern belles: the language rebels -- Defying paradise: Hawai'i -- The other in the mirror -- Ya basta -- The unassimilable races: what it means to be Asian -- Case study 1: moral panic in Oakland -- Case study 2: linguistic profiling and fair housing -- Conclusion: civil (dis)obedience and the shadow of language
