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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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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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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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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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(see. 4.2.3.2 The Language Situation)