This book, written by a friend and mentor, is foundational to the current turn in Black sociolinguistics. Baugh, the progenitor of the study of the phenomenon of linguistic discrimination pulls back the curtain on all the ways in which race-based discrimination is still not only enabled but encouraged when it is on the basis of language and points the way to the use of Linguistics to intervene. This book shouts that Black lives and Black voices matter, and reminds us that there can be no social science without social justice.