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Black girl autopoetics : agency in everyday digital practice / Ashleigh Greene Wade ; with illustrations by Al Valentín.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2024Description: xi, 163 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 32 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781478025603
  • 1478025603
  • 9781478020851
  • 1478020857
Subject(s):
Contents:
Defining Black Girl Autopoetics -- Interlude: On Developing Digital Ethics for/with Black Girls -- Places to Be: Black Girls Mapping, Navigating, and Creating Space through Digital Practice -- "You Gotta Show Your Life": Reading the Digital Archives of Everyday Black Girlhood -- "I Love Posting Pictures of Myself": Hypervisibility as a Politics of Refusal -- Making Time: Black Girls' Digital Activism as Temporal Reclamation -- What Does Black Girl Autopoetics Make Possible?
Summary: "Black Girl Autopoetics maps the everyday digital practices Black girls, showing us what their digital content reveals about their everyday experiences and how their digital production contributes to a broader archive of Black life. Ashleigh Greene Wade coins the term "Black girl autopoetics" as a way of describing how Black girls' self-making creatively reinvents cultural products, spaces, and discourse in digital space. By contrast to the pre-internet era, Black girls can seize the means of representation for themselves with a speed and flexibility enabled by smart phones. Throughout the book, Wade analyzes the double bind Black girls face when creating content on-line: on one hand, their online activity makes them hyper-visible, putting them at risk for cyberbullying, harassment, and other forms of violence, and on the other hand, Black girls are rarely given credit for their digital inventiveness, rendering them invisible. Using ethnographic research into the digital cultural production of adolescent Black girls in Richmond, Virginia to illustrate Black girl autopoetics, Wade draws a complex picture of how Black girls navigate contemporary reality, and she urges us to listen to Black girls' experience and learn from their techniques of survival"-- Provided by publisher.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In Black Girl Autopoetics Ashleigh Greene Wade explores how Black girls create representations of themselves in digital culture with the speed and flexibility enabled by smartphones. She analyzes the double bind Black girls face when creating content online: on one hand, their online activity makes them hypervisible, putting them at risk for cyberbullying, harassment, and other forms of violence; on the other hand, Black girls are rarely given credit for their digital inventiveness, rendering them invisible. Wade maps Black girls' everyday digital practices, showing what their digital content reveals about their everyday experiences and how their digital production contributes to a broader archive of Black life. She coins the term Black girl autopoetics to describe how Black girls' self-making creatively reinvents cultural products, spaces, and discourse in digital space. Using ethnographic research into the digital cultural production of adolescent Black girls throughout the United States, Wade draws a complex picture of how Black girls navigate contemporary reality, urging us to listen to Black girls' experience and learn from their techniques of survival.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Defining Black Girl Autopoetics -- Interlude: On Developing Digital Ethics for/with Black Girls -- Places to Be: Black Girls Mapping, Navigating, and Creating Space through Digital Practice -- "You Gotta Show Your Life": Reading the Digital Archives of Everyday Black Girlhood -- "I Love Posting Pictures of Myself": Hypervisibility as a Politics of Refusal -- Making Time: Black Girls' Digital Activism as Temporal Reclamation -- What Does Black Girl Autopoetics Make Possible?

"Black Girl Autopoetics maps the everyday digital practices Black girls, showing us what their digital content reveals about their everyday experiences and how their digital production contributes to a broader archive of Black life. Ashleigh Greene Wade coins the term "Black girl autopoetics" as a way of describing how Black girls' self-making creatively reinvents cultural products, spaces, and discourse in digital space. By contrast to the pre-internet era, Black girls can seize the means of representation for themselves with a speed and flexibility enabled by smart phones. Throughout the book, Wade analyzes the double bind Black girls face when creating content on-line: on one hand, their online activity makes them hyper-visible, putting them at risk for cyberbullying, harassment, and other forms of violence, and on the other hand, Black girls are rarely given credit for their digital inventiveness, rendering them invisible. Using ethnographic research into the digital cultural production of adolescent Black girls in Richmond, Virginia to illustrate Black girl autopoetics, Wade draws a complex picture of how Black girls navigate contemporary reality, and she urges us to listen to Black girls' experience and learn from their techniques of survival"-- Provided by publisher.

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