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Author Wade, Ashleigh Greene , 1985- author.

Title Black girl autopoetics : agency in everyday digital practice / Ashleigh Greene Wade ; with illustrations by Al Valentín
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 163 pages) : illustrations
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Internet and women -- United States
African American women -- Social aspects
Women -- Identity.
Digital media -- Social aspects -- United States
Technology and women -- United States
Technology and Black people -- United States
African American women in popular culture -- History -- 21st century
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies.
Women -- Identity
Technology and women
Technology and Black people
Internet and women
Digital media -- Social aspects
African American women in popular culture
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Valentín, Al, illustrator
LC no. 2023025643
ISBN 1478027738
9781478027737