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Whither Shall We Go? The Past and Present of Black Churches and the Public Sphere [PDF]

open access: yesReligions, 2015
In this paper, I analyze the contemporary role of the Black Church in the public sphere. Some argue that despite the historical role of the Black Church in addressing racial inequality, it should not be involved in the public sphere, as there should be a
Kendra H. Barber
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The Discourse of Black Fragility in a Divided Public Sphere [PDF]

open access: yesJAm It!, 2022
The expression of fragility has always been a difficult and complex matter for African Americans, for the discourse of mainstream media is set up to sustain their fragility while at the same time misrecognizing it.
Meili Steele
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ON(LINE) TRANSPARENCY AND THE BLACK PUBLIC SPHERE

open access: yesAoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research, 2021
In the past several decades, Black publics have increasingly employed digital technologies to advance Black liberation movements, culture, and joy. This proliferation of Black publics online has prompted many scholars to ask whether the internet as a tool ultimately works to the benefit or detriment of marginal publics ...
Brendan Daniel Mahoney
semanticscholar   +4 more sources

Digital Black Voices: Podcasting and the Black Public Sphere

open access: yesDigital Humanities Quarterly, 2022
Podcasts exist as new form of digital media that is quickly growing in popularity but remains understudied. This study explores Black podcasts’ contributions to the Black public sphere. The study found that Black podcasts are a space in which Black people participate in discourse that seeks to build community and resist against hegemonic structures ...
Bryan M. Jenkins, Taryn K. Myers
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Discursive Incarceration: Black Fragility in a Divided Public Sphere

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2023
Abstract: The expression of fragility has always been a difficult and complex matter for African Americans, for the discourse of mainstream media is set up to sustain their fragility while at the same time misrecognizing it. Even though the black public sphere split off from the dominant public sphere after the Civil War to enable distinctive forms of ...
Meili Steele
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Out or In? The Black Blogosphere and the News Media

open access: yesGlocalism: Journal of Culture, Politics and Innovation, 2016
Alternatives to the dominant public sphere and associated dialogue are especially important for underrepresented groups. These alternatives allow for groups to create their own dialogues that can then be used to change the direction of the larger ...
Cara Robinson, Nia Cantey
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Domestic violence through the window of the COVID-19 lockdown: a public crisis embodied/exposed in the private/domestic sphere [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Global Faultlines, 2020
COVID-19 has been recognized globally as a public health crisis, which has directly led to the deaths of more than 40,000 people in the UK (World Health Organization, 2020).
Jane Krishnadas, Sophia Hayat Taha
doaj   +2 more sources

“An Honest Living”: Street Vendors, Municipal Regulation, and the Black Public Sphere

open access: yesThe Yale Law Journal, 1994
I, like many blacks, believe that an oppressed people should not be too law abiding, especially where economics is concerned.' The economic system that has exploited us is not likely to be effectively exploited by us if we pay too much attention to the law.
R. Austin
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Promises of Blackness in the State Socialist Public Sphere in Poland

open access: yesSlavic Review
Abstract This article engages with the construction of blackness in the socialist public sphere in state socialist Poland by analyzing two case studies: the visit of Kwame Nkrumah to Poland and the career of the US basketball player Kent Washington. While these two cases are embedded in different historical and political moments, they
Thục Linh Nguyễn Vũ   +1 more
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Preventing AIDS, producing mothers: a sociological reading of HIV/AIDS posters aimed at women in the 1980s and 1990s [PDF]

open access: yesArchives of Public Health
This article offers a sociological analysis of the representational frameworks constructed around women in HIV/AIDS prevention campaigns published in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s. We argue that the recurring use of the category of ‘mother’
João Paulo Gugliotti   +1 more
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