Sara Garnes: Hi! Two books I vote for your students to read: Keith Gilyard's Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence. Detroit: Wayne State U. Press, 1991 (in which Gilyard alternates chapters of his AfricanAmerican upbringing with research summaries and comments on those aspects of language). And James Paul Gee's Social Linguistics and Literacies: Ideology in Discourses, 2nd ed. London: Taylor and Francis, 1996. I've used both of these.