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Publication Date: 2018
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#StayWoke: The Language and Literacies of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement
Richardson, Elaine; Ragland, Alice
Community Literacy Journal, v12 n2 p27-56 Spr 2018
Tis paper examines the language, literacies, communicative, and rhetorical practices of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. The work pays attention to the communication practices of the BLM and Hip Hop generation in its extension of Black and African American language traditions and prior liberation movements in their unapologetic performance of Black chants, Black grammar, phonology, vocabulary, Black fashion and music, to die-ins, hands-up, and the technologization of the movement through social media, Black Twitter, hashtags, and memes. The language and literacies of the Black Lives Matter movement represent diverse identities within Black community, vernacular associated with various economic and educational classes, diaspora, culturally rooted, Hip Hop generations, cis-gendered women, men, as well as LGBTQ and gender non-conforming. In this way, the language and literacies of BLM promote the value of ALL Black lives.
Descriptors: African Americans, Social Action, Activism, Language Usage, Rhetoric, African American Culture, African American History, Black Dialects, Grammar, Phonology, Vocabulary, Clothing, Music, Social Media, Social Justice, Literacy, Racial Bias, Consciousness Raising
Community Literacy Journal. Veronica House 317 UCB, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309. e-mail: editorsclj@gmail.com; Web site: http://communityliteracy.org/
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Language: English
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