Cover image for Reclaiming our space : how Black feminists are changing the world from the tweets to the streets
Title:
Reclaiming our space : how Black feminists are changing the world from the tweets to the streets
Publication Date:
2019
Publication Information:
Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2019]
Physical Description:
186 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9780807055373
Abstract:
A treatise of Black women's transformative influence in media, entertainment, and politics, and why this intersectional movement building, especially on Twitter, is essential to the resistance. Feminista Jones explores how Black women are changing culture, society, and the landscape of feminism by building digital communities and using social media as powerful platforms. Complex conversations around race, class, and gender that have been happening behind the closed doors of academia for decades are now becoming part of the wider cultural vernacular--one pithy tweet at a time. These online platforms have given those outside the traditional university setting an opportunity to engage with and advance these conversations--and in doing so have created new energy for intersectional movements around the world. It has been a seismic shift, and as Jones argues, no one has had more to do with this renaissance of community building than Black women.
Contents:
It all started when ... -- #BlackFeminism 101-- #BlackFeminism 102 -- Thread! -- The influencers -- Talk like sex -- Black girls are magic -- Twenty-first-century Negro bedwenches -- Black Mamas Matter -- "I've always been good to you people!" -- Mammy 2.0: Black women will not save you, so stop asking -- Combahee lives.
Language:
English
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