“Thank You, Black Twitter”: State Violence, Digital Counterpublics, and Pedagogies of Resistance

In this article, I examine the role of Black Twitter as a “digital counterpublic” that enables critical pedagogy, political organizing, and both symbolic and material forms of resistance to anti-Black state violence within the United States. Focusing primarily on post-Ferguson events, I spotlight th...

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Published inUrban education (Beverly Hills, Calif.) Vol. 53; no. 2; pp. 286 - 302
Main Author Hill, Marc Lamont
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.02.2018
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
Activism
Advocacy
African American Community
African Americans
Black people
Critical Theory
Current Events
Death
Disadvantaged
Males
Marginality
Minority groups
Pedagogy
Police Community Relationship
Political violence
Popular Culture
Power Structure
Race
Racial Attitudes
Racial Bias
Resistance
Resistance (Psychology)
Social Justice
Social Media
Social networks
Surveillance
Teaching
Violence
Missouri
racism
race
social
subjects
activism
diversity
Black males
urban
popular culture
identity
culture
poverty
violence
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Summary:In this article, I examine the role of Black Twitter as a “digital counterpublic” that enables critical pedagogy, political organizing, and both symbolic and material forms of resistance to anti-Black state violence within the United States. Focusing primarily on post-Ferguson events, I spotlight the ways that Black people have used Black Twitter and other digital counterpublics to engage in forms of pedagogy that reorganize relations of surveillance, reject rigid respectability politics, and contest the erasure of marginalized groups within the Black community.
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ISSN:0042-0859
1552-8340
DOI:10.1177/0042085917747124