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In ‘Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets,’ Feminista Jones chronicles how a political philosophy and social movement has grown online.

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Emma Hallberg, a white teenager and self-proclaimed model, is being accused "blackfishing," or pretending to be black, to get more followers.

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Tweets written in African-American English slang more likely to be considered offensive

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The compulsion to change the hashtag from #BlackLivesMatter to #AllLivesMatter, born out of discomfort with blackness, shows just how powerful viral blackness can be in its refusal to accommodate white supremacy.

“New Genres of Being Human”: World Making through Viral Blackness, Ashleigh Greene Wade

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Facing these oppressive structures, Black youth play an important role in mobilizing viral blackness against white supremacy, socioeconomic decay, and other injustices. We have long held the notion that youth lead revolutions. The connection between viral blackness and youth disillusionment is strong because viral blackness requires a population of people who are no longer invested in the status quo. These people tend to be youth who have lived their entire lives within a system that has not convinced them to buy into it.

“New Genres of Being Human”: World Making through Viral Blackness, Ashleigh Greene Wade

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Black feminist hashtags as becoming posits sameness and substitutivity between digital mediation and embodiment. Black feminist hashtags are not simply a confluence of text, hypertext, symbols, and “racially charged” feminist trends on social networking platforms. They do things.

Decoding Black Feminist Hashtags as Becoming, Tara L. Conley

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“Black Twitter” can be described as a collective of active, primarily African-American Twitter users who have created a virtual community that participates in continuous real-time conversations. When they work together, this collective is proving adept at bringing about a wide range of sociopolitical changes. It doesn’t take much effort to get users to rally together behind causes that may have an impact on their lives. “We don’t need a whole bunch of background information to fight injustice — if you tell us about a problem, we can fact-check online within minutes to verify, and be down the road on tackling inequality,” says Angela Rye, director of strategic partnerships atIMPACT.

Jones, Is Twitter the Underground Railroad of Activism (via acnposts)

This quote emphasizes the community aspect of Black Twitter. It’s a space for black people to communicate with each other, and band together to force changes in society. There is a strength in numbers, and Twitter gives black people that opportunity. This is why it’s so offensive when white people pretend to be black on twitter. They are diluting the actual voices of black people and disrupting the community.

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No one has time for this junk science bolstering these white standards of beauty, not on Rihanna’s Internet. No, ma’am.

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I re-blogged this because it shows the different ways that Black twitter interacts with this kind of social issue. Many people tweeted jokes and reaction gifs in order to express their outrage. There were a few tweets that explicitly called out the underlying social issue, which is European beauty standards, but most simply alluded to the issue.

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No one has time for this junk science bolstering these white standards of beauty, not on Rihanna’s Internet. No, ma’am.

mbelizabeth-blog

I re-blogged this because it shows the different ways that Black twitter interacts with this kind of social issue. Many people tweeted jokes and reaction gifs in order to express their outrage. There were a few tweets that explicitly called out the underlying social issue, which is European beauty standards, but most simply alluded to the issue.

The first football game between Harvard and Howard University has brought a new dimension to an age-old debate over “the real HU.” But for some black students a…

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Corrections and clarifications: An earlier version of this story included outdated information about the relationship between Young Invincibles and the Center for Community Change. Young Invincibles is no longer sponsored by the center and is...

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Charles L. Reason was born on July 21, 1818 in New York City. His parents emphasized the importance of education, and very early on the young Reason displayed an aptitude for mathematics when he was

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The university, then, is not the opposite of the prison, since they are both involved in their way with the reduction and command of the social individual. And indeed, under the circumstances, more universities and fewer prisons would, it has to be concluded, mean the memory of the war was being further lost, and living unconquered, conquered labor abandoned to its lowdown fate.

The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study

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No post-colonialist, no critical theorist, no African Americanist, and no queer theorist thought anything of this situation because they counted on white supremacy to let them sit on the sidelines and observe violence, racially mark the black male student as 'difficult'; racially mark me as angry and inappropriate (I never seemed to pick the 'right time' to discuss race with white people); and racially mark the white woman as 'innocent' and 'victim.'

Teaching While Black: Witnessing and Countering Disciplinary Whiteness, Racial Violence, and University Race-Management, Carmen Kynard

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The classroom was no longer a place of pleasure or ecstasy. School was still a political place, since we were always having to counter white racist assumptions that we were genetically inferior, never as capable as white peers, even unable to learn.

pg 4, Teaching to Transgress, Bell Hooks

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examples of AAVE in music

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It is now widely accepted that most of the grammar of African American Vernacular English (AAVE) derives from English dialectal sources—in particular, the settler dialects introduced into the American South during the 17th and 18th centuries. The roots of AAVE were established during the first century of the British colonization of America, in the Chesapeake Bay area (Virginia and Maryland), and later, in the Carolinas and Georgia. The socio-historical evidence suggests that conditions in most of the South were favorable for Blacks to acquire relatively close approximations of the dialects spoken by White settlers, particularly indentured servants. Since Blacks were exposed to a variety of British English dialects and shaped by influence from African languages and possibly also from creole varieties introduced by slaves brought from the Caribbean, AAVE evolved against a background of continuing language contact.

(see. 4.2.3.2 The Language Situation)

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