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Black Feminist Hip-Hop Rhetorics and the Digital Public Sphere

Changing English, 2017
AbstractDigital public discourse spaces like Twitter and blogs like The Crunk Feminist Collective allow for Black voices not only to be inserted in the mainstream media, but to transform those media to focus on their needs from their perspective. These digital counterdiscourses challenge the traditional boundaries between the academy and the community,
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Binding Freedom: Cuba's Black Public Sphere, 1868-1912

2016
My dissertation studies the cultural, social, and political associations linked to the civil rights movement in Cuba during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which witnessed the abolition of slavery, the crumbling of colonialism and the entrance of black intellectuals into formal politics. I trace the emergence of a black public sphere
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Suffrage and the New Negro in the Black Public Sphere

2020
The era immediately following World War I was tumultuous for African American communities, with its widespread backlash against black American soldiers, urban antiblack violence and riots, and lynching. The black press, which conveyed the communities’ sense of anxiety and grievance, was critical to the formation and maintenance of a radical black ...
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Afrofuturism and the DNA of Biopolitics in the Black Public Sphere

Black Theology, 2016
This article explores the relationship of Afrofuturism to the intersection of race, religion and biopolitics within the Black public sphere. The article examines representations of emerging genomic technology in the film District 9 and the ethical questions regarding DNA surveillance and DNA phenotyping.
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“Like an earthquake!” Theater television, boxing, and the black public sphere

Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 1997
(1997). “Like an earthquake!” Theater television, boxing, and the black public sphere. Quarterly Review of Film and Video: Vol. 16, U.S. Regional and Non‐Network Television, pp. 307-323.
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Exer(or)cising Power: Black Bodies in the Black Public Sphere

1997
I have been asking myself, whatever happened to breakdancing? Where did the acrobatic dance form that legend tells us evolved in the South Bronx as a competitive alternative to gang violence go? I can still recall the awe with which underground London beheld Ritchie ‘Crazy Legs’ Morales perform a head-spin so devastating that it transformed the way ...
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The Early American Public Sphere and the Emergence of a Black Print Counterpublic

William and Mary Quarterly, 2005
LACK community and literary formation in the 178os and 1790s constitutes a distinctive intellectual history of the early Republic. Historians Joanne Pope Melish, Patrick Rael, Shane White, and Craig Steven Wilder have contributed to our understanding of the social, legal, and political histories of free blacks in the early national era.
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Antiquity, Tradition, and Anti-Blackness in Hannah Arendt's Public Sphere

TAPA
summary: Scholarship on Hannah Arendt's receptions of Greco-Roman antiquity has largely neglected debates about anti-Blackness in her writing. To begin to fill this gap, this article focuses on Arendt's concept of the public ( The Human Condition ) and her condemnations of Black student movements ( On Violence ).
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Habermas and Oppositional Public Spheres: A Stereoscopic Analysis of Black and White Press Practices

Political Studies, 2007
Drawing upon Jürgen Habermas's discourse-based theoretical approach, this article argues that his thesis regarding the bourgeois public sphere needs to be redirected so as (1) to show how sources of communicative action may have dried up within the bourgeois public sphere and (2) to explore real emancipatory alternatives that spring up as oppositional
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Performing Intimacy Using “Race-Specific, Race-Free Language”: Black Private Letters in the Public Sphere

South Atlantic Quarterly, 2010
In the 1997 essay “Home,” Toni Morrison explores her attempt to create “race-specific, race-free language,” asking “How to enunciate race while depriving it of its lethal cling?” I propose that Morrison's conception of language that encodes race without racism represents a new way of talking about race in the political and public sphere.
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