| Talkin and testifyin: The language of Black America G Smitherman Wayne State University Press, 1986 | 3481 | 1986 |
| Spoken soul: The story of black English JR Rickford, RJ Rickford Turner Publishing Company, 2007 | 1201 | 2007 |
| Talkin that talk: Language, culture and education in African America G Smitherman Routledge, 1999 | 1127 | 1999 |
| Black talk: Words and phrases from the hood to the amen corner G Smitherman Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000 | 1018 | 2000 |
| Articulate while Black: Barack Obama, language, and race in the US HS Alim, G Smitherman Oxford University Press, 2012 | 694 | 2012 |
| Word from the mother: Language and African Americans G Smitherman, HS Alim Routledge, 2021 | 514 | 2021 |
| “The Chain Remain the Same” Communicative Practices in the Hip Hop Nation G Smitherman Journal of Black Studies 28 (1), 3-25, 1997 | 485 | 1997 |
| Discourse, ethnicity, culture and racism TA Van Dijk, S Ting-Toomey, G Smitherman, D Troutman Discourse as social interaction 2, 144-180, 1997 | 265 | 1997 |
| How I got over: Communication dynamics in the Black community JL Daniel, G Smitherman Quarterly Journal of Speech 62 (1), 26-39, 1976 | 235 | 1976 |
| Discourse and discrimination G Smitherman, TA van Dijk Wayne State University Press, 1988 | 231 | 1988 |
| Black linguistics: Language, society, and politics in Africa and the Americas S Makoni Psychology Press, 2003 | 226 | 2003 |
| CCCC's Role in the Struggle for Language Rights G Smitherman College Composition and Communication 50 (3), 349-376, 1999 | 216 | 1999 |
| Language diversity in the classroom: From intention to practice G Smitherman, V Villanueva SIU Press, 2003 | 172 | 2003 |
| " Students' Right to Their Own Language": A Retrospective G Smitherman The English Journal 84 (1), 21-27, 1995 | 172 | 1995 |
| " What Is Africa to Me?": Language, Ideology, and African American G Smitherman American Speech 66 (2), 115-132, 1991 | 167 | 1991 |
| " What Go Round Come Round": King in Perspective G Smitherman Harvard Educational Review 51 (1), 40-56, 1981 | 165 | 1981 |
| " The Blacker the Berry, the Sweeter the Juice": African American Student Writers and the National Assessment of Educational Progress. G Smitherman | 158 | 1993 |
| The right (write) start: African American language and the discourse of sounding right AH Dyson, G Smitherman Teachers college record 111 (4), 973-998, 2009 | 140 | 2009 |
| Word from the hood: The lexicon of African-American vernacular English G Smitherman African-American English, 203-225, 2013 | 128 | 2013 |
| Black English and the education of Black children and youth G Smitherman Proceedings of the National Symposium on the King Decision. Detroit, MI …, 1981 | 114 | 1981 |
