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Record Nr.

UNINA9910723699903321

Autore

Maraj Louis Maurice

Titolo

Black or right : anti/racist campus rhetorics / / Louis M. Maraj

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Logan : , : Utah State University Press, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

1-64642-146-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

305.800973

Soggetti

Black people - Race identity - United States

United States Race relations 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : "It ain't that deep" : deep rhetorical ecologies and para/ontological Blackness -- "Are you Black, though?" : Black autoethnography and racing the graduate student/instructor -- Composing Black matter/s : hashtagging as marginalized literacy -- "Alls my life I had to fight" : shaping #BlackLivesMatter through literacy events -- The politics of belonging... : when "becoming a victim of any crime is no one's fault" -- Conclusion : de ting about Blackness: (a meditation).

Sommario/riassunto

"Exploring notions of Blackness in white institutional-particularly educational-spaces. Theorizing how in the age of #BlackLivesMatter, Black identity operates with/against neoliberal ideas of difference. Centering Blackness in frameworks for antiracist agency through interdisciplinary Black feminist lenses and asks how those racially signifying 'diversity' in higher education (and beyond) create meaning"--