One of the legacies of the various Pride movements of the sixties has been the proliferation of books on Black English. This has been ably and amply documented by the Brasches' fine bibliography. It was not until the scholarly community could conceive of black Americans as having sufficiently distinctive patterns of culture that such studies were carried out or found much of an audience. Before that, of course, black language was commonly accounted for in the same way as other Afro-American behaviors, as evidences of some essential cultural disability. Even the standard work on ethnic continuity and diversity in the United States, Glazer and Moynihan's Beyond the Melting Pot, could not get beyond