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- Title
The Aftermath of #BlackGirlsRock vs. #WhiteGirlsRock: Considering the DisRespectability of a Black Women’s Counterpublic.
- Authors
Davis, Shardé M.
- Abstract
This study considers the failed attempts at unifying Black women with Black men and white women after the #BlackGirlsRock mantra was criticized on social media in 2013. I examine the discursive labor of a Black women’s counterpublic in an online comments section and argue that its constituents rejected the behavioral expectations of harmony and decorum in favor of agitation, disrespectability, and ratchetness (Cooper, 2012a, 2012b, 2012c). Qualitative discourse analysis (Gee, 2014a, 2014b) revealed that Black women’s language challenged misconceptions of singular identity narratives through an oppositional discourse and celebrated Black womanhood concurrently. I warrant these claims by discussing the language functions according to two larger discourses: (1) disparaging Black men and white women and (2) fortifying the sistahood.
- Subjects
BLACK women; BLACK men; WHITE women; RACISM; DISCOURSE analysis
- Publication
Women's Studies in Communication, 2018, Vol 41, Issue 3, p269
- ISSN
0749-1409
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/07491409.2018.1505678