Index
activism, 160(n23); Black, 61, 72, 89; political, 119; student, 127; on Twitter, 69–70
affective economy, of white institutions, 36–37
African American, as term, 75, 138
African American Policy Forum, 91
African indigenous relational model, 12, 14, 17; inquiry, 104–5
agency, 8–9, 12, 18, 51; student, 129–30
Ahmed, Sara, 3, 7, 9, 16, 42, 56, 89, 120, 150(n5); On Being Included, 15, 106
Alexander, Michelle, 97; The New Jim Crow, 95
Algorithms of Oppression (Noble), 50
All Lives Matter, 73
“Alright” (Lamar), 19, 79, 85, 94, 139, 159(nn20, 21), 160(n22); Black Christianity theme in, 97–98; as #BlackLivesMatter anthem, 88–89, 92; interrogating white supremacy, 86–87
Anderson, Alonzo, 78
anger, 38
animacy hierarchies, 143
annotation, Black, 45–46
antiBlackness, 105, 123, 140, 141; objects of, 143–44
antiracism, 20, 42, 57; Blackness used in, 6–7; conservative reaction to, 123–24; hashtags, 54–55, 141; research, 10, 13–14
Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies (Inoue), 10
Anzaldúa, Gloria, 26
Arabs, 81
Are Prisons Obsolete? (Davis), 95
assimilation, and rhetorical reclamation, 138
authenticity, Black, 28–29
autoethnography, 42, 149(n1), 152(n3), 156(n21); Black, 12–13, 17, 20, 24, 25–26, 27, 29–30, 31, 138, 141, 145, 146, 154(n18); methodologies, 32–33
Bailey, Moya, #HashtagActivism, 48
Baker, Houston A., 34–35, 100, 144, 158(n8)
Bartholomae, David, “Inventing the University,” 47
Becoming Human, 143
Being Included, On (Ahmed), 15, 106
Bell, Derrick, 131
Bennett, Jane, Vibrant Matter, 142
Beyoncé, 65; “Flawless (Remix),” 66; “Formation,” 64, 100; Lemonade, 98, 99
birther movement, 82
Black, rhetorical reclamation of, 137–38
Black bodies, 8, 103–4, 135; public use of, 34–35; and selfhood, 24; and white authority, 27, 117
Black Caribbeans, 4–5
Black Christianity, 97–99
Black consciousness, 26
“Blacker the Berry, The” (Lamar), 96, 100, 160(n22)
Black feminism, 8, 11, 12, 14, 16, 29, 49, 62–63, 85, 87, 92, 93, 110, 118, 138, 143, 152(n19); and Black Lives Matter movement, 72–73, 90; hashtag composition, 65–68; inquiry in, 104–5; rearticulation, 131–32; relationality of, 77–78; rhetorical reclamation, 116–17; sexualities, 140–41; and student protests, 127–28
Black Feminist Thought (Hill Collins), 62–63, 64, 65, 73
Black freedom movement, 118, 145, 158(n8)
Black Liberation Collective, 127
Black Liberation Movement, 77, 90–91
#BlackLivesMatter, #BlackLivesMatter movement, 8, 15, 16, 17, 46, 52, 53, 61, 79–80, 84, 90, 96, 107, 117, 118, 129, 139, 156(n1); backlash to, 123–24; Garza on, 99, 159(n19); hashtags, 70–73; inter(con)textual readings, 13, 19, 140; on police brutality, 75–76; protests, 88–89, 127–28; roles of, 144–45; Twitter activism, 69–70
Black Lives Matter in the Classroom symposium (MwSU), 105; backlash to, 123–24; events, 20, 106–7; Kynard’s keynote, 117–18; visuals for, 118–19, 128–29
“#BlackLivesMatter Kitchen Talk” (Faithful), 69, 73
blacklivesmattersyllabus.com (Roberts), 19, 160–61(n23); themes in, 85–97, 98–99, 100
#BlackLives Matter to Black Liberation, From (Taylor), 81
#BlackLivesStillMatter, 72
Blackness, 8, 9, 11, 13, 17, 18, 20, 21, 32, 35, 72, 75, 82, 83, 103–4, 120, 149(n4), 150–51(nn7, 10), 153(n8); anagrammatical, 134–35; in antiracist ethos, 6–7; critical inquiry into, 42–43; as deviance, 111–12; Fanonian fractures, 77, 100, 140; history of, 142–43; negotiating, 44, 91; object-beingness, 87, 145–46; performance of, 22, 28; policing, 95–96; racializing, 115–16
Black Power, 77
Blacks, 53, 72, 75, 80; criminalization of, 110–11; rightful place, 135–36; student agency, 129–30; in white institutions, 120–21
Black Skin, White Masks (Fanon), 144
“Black Studies Manifesto, A” (Wynter), 56
Black Twitter, 45, 53, 69–70, 141, 145
Black womanhood, 100; and Black Christianity, 98–99; queer, 15, 88, 89, 145, 159(n19)
blogs, #BlackLivesMatter, 69–73. See also Tumblr
Blum, Adam, 89
bodies. See Black bodies
Bonilla, Yarimar, 68
books, commonplace, 50–52
Bootstraps (Villanueva), 26
botho/Ubuntu, 8, 49, 77, 139, 144, 146
Brand, Dionne, 27
British English, 134
Brown, Jayna, 143
Brown, Michael, 15, 77, 82, 93, 126, 135; memorials for, 136, 137; as object, 143–44
Browne, Kevin, 11
Browne, Simone, 8, 39, 82, 111, 112, 134, 135; Dark Matters, 141
Bruns, Axel, 48
brutality, police, 18, 28, 72, 75–76, 95–96; as norm, 41–42
Burgess, Jean, 48
Cacho, Lisa Marie, 25, 131, 152(n4)
call and response gestures, 15
campus crime, public safety notices, 108–9
Campus Crime Statistics Act (1990), 108
Campus Reform website, 123
Census Bureau, racial categories, 80, 158(n10)
Césaire, Aimé, 143
Chandler, Nahum, on paraontology, 6
Chang, Jeff, 124
Charlottesville (Virginia), 102, 127, 163(n10)
Chen, Mel Y., 143
Chilisa, Bagele, 9, 12, 49, 116
Choi, Franny, “To the Man Who Shouted,” 65, 66
Christianity, 162(n40); Black, 97–99
Civil Rights movement, 57, 72, 76, 99
Clark, Meredith D., 53
classroom, as ecology, 31
Cleveland, #BlackLivesMatter protest, 88–89
Cohen, Cathy, 72, 80, 105; “Whose Black Lives Matter?,” 75–76
colorblindness, 40; in language, 114–15; Obama presidency, 37, 81, 83, 84
color lines, visibility of, 39
Color Purple, The (Walker), 92
Combahee River Collective, 12, 78, 85, 93, 139, 140, 162(n41)
commonplace books, 50; functions of, 51–52
commonplaces: digital counter/public, 46–47; hashtags as, 48–49, 155–56(nn12, 13); university as, 47–48
communities, hashtag, 62–63
Community Police Academy (MwSU), 105, 106, 112–13, 118–19, 124, 125
composition, 9; hashtagging, 18–19, 64–68
connectivity, through hashtags, 60–62
consciousness, Black, 26
Cooper, Brittany, Eloquent Rage, 141
Cooper, Marilyn, 13
Copia, De (Erasmus), 51
Corrigan, Lisa, 10, 84, 151(n14)
Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams, 91
crime: campus, 108–9, 120–21, 163(n9); responsibility for, 120–21, 122
criminalization, criminality, 20, 25, 84, 119, 120; Black, 38–39, 40–41, 111
critical analysis, griots-as-scholars, 17–18
critical race theory, 10, 25, 152(n4)
Cullors, Patrisse, 88
cultural moment, 17, 79, 157(n4)
cultural ownership, and racialization, 115–16
cultural values, shared, 51
Dark Matters (Browne), 141
Davis, Angela, 91, 97; Are Prisons Obsolete?, 95
death, digital and textual examples of, 46
deep ecologies, 7, 8, 57, 84, 85, 96, 144, 150(n8); Black con/texts, 100–101; Black feminist lens, 11–12; #BlackLivesMatter movement, 90–91; wake work, 77–78
defensiveness. See white institutional defensiveness
Democracy Matters (West), 88
deviance/disruption, 20, 37, 104–5, 115; Blackness as, 111–12, 126, 141, 145
DiAngelo, Robin, “White Fragility,” 80, 124
diaspora, Blackness in, 11
die ins, #BlackLivesMatter movement, 117
difference, 18, 25, 56, 82, 113, 115
digital media, 50, 54; protests, 44–45
display, 35
diversity, 15–16, 18, 19; MwSU, 107, 118; and public safety alerts, 108–9, 119–20; white institutions, 36–37, 129
Drake, Simone, 110–11, 112, 153(n9)
Du Bois, W.E.B., 89; The Souls of Black Folk, 32, 86, 154(n18)
ecological frameworks/networks, 7, 150(n9); antiracist research, 13–14
ecologies, 31; rhetorical, 24, 79, 150(n9). See also deep ecologies
Edbauer, Jenny, 150(n8); “Unframing Models of Public Distribution,” 13
Edgar, Amanda Nell, 99
education, 5; social value of, 4, 31–32
Edwards, Mary Morgan, 110
Eloquent Rage (Cooper), 141
End Racial Profiling Act, 81
English, Black v. standard, 30
enlightenment, fugitive, 57
epistemic rupture, hashtags as, 56–57
Erasmus, De Copia, 51
Estrada, Elette, 78
Faithful, Rachael, 72; “#BlackLivesMatter Kitchen Talk,” 69, 73
Fanon, Frantz, 3, 6, 35, 97, 100, 133; on Black body, 103–4, 135; Black Skin, White Masks, 144; on whiteness, 4–5, 114; zone of non-being, 142–43
fear: of police, 125; of racial other, 39, 125
feminism. See Black feminism
Ferguson, 135; hashtags on, 62, 71; memorial at, 136, 137
Ferguson October events, 72
Ferguson Uprising, 15, 28, 61, 70, 71(fig.), 72, 77, 128, 136, 158(n9)
Ferreira da Silva, Denise, 24
“Flawless (Remix)” (Beyoncé and Minaj), 66
Flores, Lisa L., 82
“Formation” (Beyoncé), 64, 100
framing, 27
Freire, Paolo, 49
Fruitvale Station (Oakland), 129
fugitive study, 57
Gaillet, Lynee Lewis, 52
Garza, Alicia, 89, 90, 91, 92, 96, 141; “A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement,” 19, 72, 73, 79, 85, 86, 87, 88, 93–94, 99, 159(n19), 162(n41)
Gilyard, Keith, 29, 32; Voices of the Self, 30, 33
“gon,” 87
Grafton, Anthony, 51
Grant, Laurens, Stay Woke, 87–88
Grant, Oscar, 129
Greene-Wade, Ashleigh, 45, 145, 155(n3)
Gries, Laurie, Still Life with Rhetoric, 142
griot-as-scholar, 17–18, 26, 31, 33–34, 42, 153(n12)
hair straightening, 117–18
Hammonds, Evelynn, Black women’s sexualities, 140–41
Hands Up United, 75
Harney, Stefano, 57
#HashtagActivism (Jackson, Bailey, and Welles), 48
Hashtag Feminism, 44
hashtags, 13, 18–19, 20, 44, 138–39, 154–55(nn2, 12), 156(n16); antiracist rhetoric, 54–55, 141; Black, 145–46; #BlackLivesMatter, 69–73; as commonplaces, 46–47; composition of, 64–68; as discursive political networks, 48–49; as epistemic rupture, 56–57; as marginalized literacy, 45, 74; racialized, 53–54; relational meaning, 60–64; role of, 52–53; in Tumblr assignment, 58–59
Heath, Shirley Brice, 19, 78, 110, 151(n11), 157(n6)
“Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter Movement, A” (Garza), 19, 72, 73, 79, 85, 86, 87, 88, 93–94, 99, 159(n19), 162(n41)
Hesford, Wendy S., 36, 79, 116, 117, 153(n10)
heteropatriarchy, 126; nationalist, 121–22; white, 91, 96, 98, 105, 135
Hill Collins, Patricia, 12, 66, 130, 143, 152(n18); Black Feminist Thought, 62–63, 64, 65, 73
hip-hop, language in, 32
historically white institutions. See white institutions
historiography, generative role of, 20
home, safety of, 41–42
hooks, bell, 26; Teaching to Transgress, 31
Hunger of Memory (Rodriguez), 26
hypermasculine performance, 29
identity, 14, 25, 33, 38, 54, 84, 156(n21); Black, 24, 43, 75, 113; intersectional, 22–23; narratives of, 12–13; racial, 6, 45, 82, 157(n2)
Identity Evropa, posters, 121–23, 124
#IfTheyGunnedMeDown, 53, 114, 129, 136, 145
“If This Was Plantation Days,” 31, 32
images: circulation of, 46; public use of, 34–35, 48
imaginaries, Black feminist, 29
indigenous philosophies, African, 12
injustice, video, 15
Inoue, Asao: antiracist research, 13–14; Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies, 10
inquiry, as social action, 104–5
Instagram, 53
insurgency, Black, 117
inter(con)textual reading, 19–20, 106, 110, 139–40, 141, 145, 146
intra-action, 76
“Inventing the University” (Bartholomae), 47
Islam, 158(n15); after 9/11 attacks, 81
Jackson, James S., 40
Jackson, Sara J., #HashtagActivism, 48
Jackson, Zakiyyah Iman, 6, 144, 150(n7); Becoming Human, 143
Jacobs, Alan, 55
Jacobs-Huey, LaNita, 42
Jamericans, 4
Jardine, Lisa, 51
Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy, 108, 162(n4)
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 107
Johnson, Andre E., 99
Johnson, Dorian, 135
Jones, Feminista, 61
Jordan, June, “Nobody Mean More to Me than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan,” 25, 29, 30
journalism students, 3–4; on racial issues, 5–6
Judy, R. A. T., 28; “On the Question of Nigga Authenticity,” 141
Kendall, Mikki, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, 65
Kennedy, Tammie M., Rhetorics of Whiteness, 10
King, Martin Luther, Jr., “I Have a Dream” speech, 71, 72
King, Shaun, 95, 97; policing Blackness, 95–96
knowledge, 8, 42, 64, 142, 153(n13)
Kynard, Carmen, 29, 32, 105, 107, 127, 128, 131, 162(n2); keynote, 117–18, 122; on student agency, 129–30; “Teaching While Black,” 25, 33; Vernacular Insurrections, 33
Lamar, Kendrick, 91, 152(n2), 161(n30), 162(n33); “Alright,” 19, 79, 85, 86–87, 88–90, 92, 94, 97–98, 139, 159(nn20, 21), 160(n22); “The Blacker the Berry,” 96, 100, 160(n22)
language, 30, 32, 45, 155(n8); Black use of, 134–35; colorblind, 114–15
learning: rhetorical, 54; social value of, 31–32
LGBT, on Tumblr, 56
Liberal Arts College, 34
Liberal Arts College Magazine, 34
LinkedIn, 53
literacies, 5, 9, 78, 152(n22); Black feminist, 11, 47, 110, 128; hashtags as, 45, 74; marginalized, 18, 54
literacy events, 20, 85, 93, 105–6, 157–58(n7)
“Lookin’ Ass” (Minaj), 64
Lorde, Audre, 12, 22, 26, 29, 38, 91, 132, 141, 143, 150(n5); “The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House,” 67, 68; “Power,” 61, 62
Lorey, Isabell, 25
macroaggressions, 40
“Man Who Shouted, To The” (Choi), 65, 66
Martin, Trayvon, 15, 37, 82, 93, 159(n19)
masculinities: Black, 28, 31, 32, 94, 111, 153(n9), 159(n20), 163(n7); toxic, 91
“Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House, The” (Lorde), 67
materialism, 12, 20, 143, 151(n17), 159(n20)
May, Vivian, 91
Mbembe, Achille, 4, 7, 35, 39, 82, 126, 142, 143, 150(n10)
McGuire, Meghan, 56; on Tumblr, 63–64
McIlwain, Charlton D., 53
McIntosh, Peggy, “White Privilege,” 10
McKittrick, Katherine, 134
meaning-making, 65, 105; Black con/texts, 100–101; hashtags and, 60–61
meanings, 24, 76, 78, 81; negotiating relational, 60–64
media technologies, 50
media theory, 16
memorials, for Michael Brown, 136, 137, 144
Micciche, Laura, 52
microaggressions, 40
microblogging, 55
Middleton, Joyce Irene, Rhetorics of Whiteness, 10
Midwestern State University (MwSU), 14–15, 18, 31, 56, 118, 125–26, 131; “Administration Threatens Expulsion against Students,” 20; Black Lives Matter symposium, 123–24; crime and violence on, 120–21; literacy events, 105–6; Public Safety Department, 38, 107–8, 111–14, 119–20; public safety efforts, 20, 38; student protests, 109–10, 114–15, 127–28; teaching at, 133–34
militarization, 77
Milson-Whyte, Vivette, 11
Minaj, Nicki, 65; “Flawless (Remix),” 66; “Lookin’ Ass,” 64
minorities, model, 36
Minor Re/visions (Young), 26
mobilization, 17
Montaigne, Michel de, 51
Moss, Ann, 155(n4); Printed Commonplace Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought, 52
Moten, Fred, 55, 57, 134; on objects resisting, 142–43
mothers, and Black Christianity, 99
mourning, hashtags and, 139
Movement for Black Lives, 85
mugging, 38
Murakawa, Naomi, 83
music video, “Alright,” 86, 87, 159(n21)
Muslims, as national security threats, 81
“My People, To” (Shakur), 90–91
national security, 81
Natural History (Pliny the Elder), 51
Nazism, 102–3
negotiation, of Blackness, 44, 91
Neighbors, Harold W., 40
neoliberalism, 8, 9, 18, 54, 76, 83; white defensiveness, 80–81
neo-Nazis, 127
New Jim Crow, The (Alexander), 95
new materialisms, Blackness and, 20
newspaper, university, 3–4, 5–6
nicknames, 23
“nigga,” 12, 22, 30, 32, 42–43, 86–87, 92, 97, 153(n14); in Black authenticity, 28–29
Nixon administration, 124
Noble, Safiya Umoja, Algorithms of Oppression, 50
“Nobody Mean More to Me than You and the Future Life of Willie Jordan” (Jordan), 25, 29, 30
#NoLongerSlaves, 70
“Not an Elegy for Mike Brown” (Smith), 135
Oakland, Black student protests in, 129
Obama, Barack, 82–83, 97, 158–59(n17)
Obama presidency, “colorblindness,” 37, 81
object-beingness, 7, 18, 21, 25, 42, 71, 87, 92, 97, 101, 142; antiBlack, 143–44; Black, 46, 87, 145–46
Olson, Scott, 61
Ontological Terror (Warren), 146
Othello, 4
para/ontology, 6, 15, 87, 137, 138, 144
paternalism, white institutions, 114
people of color, 10, 81, 125; autoethnography, 26, 153(n12); protests by, 126–27
performance, of Blackness, 22, 28, 29, 42–43
philosophical traditions, Black, 144
pidgin, whitening of, 4–5
Pimp a Butterfly, To (Lamar), 89, 159(n20)
plasticity, of Blackness, 6
Pliny the Elder, Natural History, 51
police, disrespect by, 125, 136
police brutality/violence, 18, 41–42, 95; responses to, 75–76; victims of, 28, 72
policing, vigilante, 82, 111, 112
political networks, hashtags as discursive, 48–49
politics of belonging, 115
positionality, 17
posthumanism, 143; Black, 11, 144, 145
“Power” (Lorde), 22, 29, 61, 62, 153(n15)
Prasad, Pritha, 145, 154–55(n2)
Pratt, Marie Louise, 26
precarization, 25
prejudices, personal, 39
Price, Margaret, on kairotic spaces, 24
Price, Rachel, 17
principle of exteriority, 82
Printed Commonplace Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought (Moss), 52
prison industrial complex, 95, 96–97
privilege, teaching, 23
process of making, Black hashtagging, 54–55
profiling, 82; in public safety posts, 110–11
protests, 15, 54, 136; against government and state violence, 44–45; rhetorical reclamation, 115–17; student, 109–10, 114–15, 126–28, 129
public safety alerts/notices, 20, 107, 119–20; Blackness as deviance in, 111–12, 113–14; diversity and, 108–9; profiling in, 110–11; surveillance, 38–39
Public Safety Department (MwSU), 38, 105, 120, 163(n9); Community Policy Academy, 112–13, 118–19, 124; notices and alerts by, 107–9, 110–12, 113–14
queer Black women, 15, 88, 89, 145, 159(n19)
race, 6, 10, 13, 54, 46, 157(n2); and Blackness, 18, 82; Census Bureau categories, 80, 158(n10); fluidity of, 75
#RaceFail, 53
race theory, 45
racial battle fatigue, 40
racial hierarchy, 28
racialization, 6, 9, 15, 24, 30, 35, 37, 73, 76, 112, 162(n1); of Black teachers, 27–28; cultural ownership and, 115–16; of hashtags, 53–54; of Obama, 82, 97
racial stress, 82; in white institutions, 114–15
racism, 83; antiBlack, 5–6, 104; heteropatriarchical, 91, 98; institutionalized, 81–82
Rambukkana, Nathan, 44, 49, 67, 72
Ransby, Barbara, 85, 99, 127, 135, 136, 158(n8)
rap, enculturation and commodification, 32
Ratcliffe, Krista: Rhetorical Listening, 25; Rhetorics of Whiteness, 10
reading, inter(con)textual, 19–20, 76–77, 106, 110
rearticulation, Black feminist, 131–32
recognitions in between, 116
relationalty, 12; Black feminist, 16, 77–78
resistance, 15, 27, 92, 109, 118; Black, 45, 79; #BlackLivesMatter protests, 88–89; narratives of, 57–58; prison industrial complex and, 95–96; women’s culture of, 64–65
Rhetorical Listening (Ratcliffe), 25
rhetorical reclamation(s), 16, 20–21, 105, 135, 137–38, 140–42, 146–47; Black feminists, 116–17; protests and, 115–16
rhetorics: antiracist, 54–55; cultural, 16; Black and brown, 9, 144
Rhetorics of Whiteness (Kennedy, Middleton, and Ratcliffe), 10
Roberts, Frank Leon, blacklivesmattersyllabus.com, 19, 85–97, 98–99, 100, 160–61(n23)
Rodriguez, Richard, Hunger of Memory, 26
Rosa, Jonathan, 68
Rosinski, Paula, 49–50
Royster, Jacqueline Jones, 29; “When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own,” 30–31
Rubenstein, Liba, 56
runaway slave notices, 39, 111, 112
Russell, Tori, 75, 84–85; on activism, 76–77
safety, 162(n4); of home, 41–42
safety alerts, 107–9, 119–20; profiling in, 110–11, 113–14
Safronova, Valeriya, 55
#SayHisName, 72
scholarship, 13; people of color, 10–11, 35
Scott, Walter, 53
segregation, 95
self-awareness, critical, 32
self-determination, rational, 24
Selfe, Cynthia, 50
Selfe, Richard, 50
selfhood, 24
self-knowledge, 17
Seneca the Younger, 51
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, US response to, 81–82
Shakur, Assata, 93, 100, 139; “To My People,” 90–91
Sharpe, Christina, 8, 11, 25, 27, 37, 111, 150(n9), 151(n18), 157(n5), 163(n5); on anagrammatical Blackness, 134–35, 143; on Black annotation, 45–46, 67, 70; In the Wake: On Blackness and Being, 147; wake work, 16, 34–35, 77, 79
Sikarskie, Amanda Grace, Tumblr community, 55–56
Sikhs, 81
Sims, Christy-Dale L., 82
Singing Sandra (Sandra DesVignes-Millington), 163(n3); “Voices from de Ghetto,” 137
slavery, 27, 162–63(n7); Trans-Atlantic, 111, 145, 157(n5)
Smith, Barbara, 139
Smith, Danez, “Not an Elegy for Mike Brown,” 135
Smitherman, Geneva, 138; Talkin and Testifyin, 87
social action, inquiry as, 104–5
social change, and #BlackLivesMatter movement, 90
social class, language and, 30
social environments, selfhood and, 24
social justice, 12, 130; Tumblr, 55–56
social media, 15; hashtags in, 48, 52–53
social movements, hashtags, 48
social networking, race theory, 45
sociogeny, 76; sociogenic principle, 24, 102, 117
#SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen (Kendall), 65
Souls of Black Folk, The (Du Bois), 32, 86, 154(n18)
South Asians, 81
space, 24, 115, 135, 150, 152–53(n5)
speech, 30
Spiller, Hortense, 12, 27, 78, 111, 117, 143
Standard American English, 4
Staples, Brent, 38
Stay Woke (Grant), 87–88
stereotypes, racial, 22, 31, 35, 117, 122
Still Life with Rhetoric (Gries). See Gries, Laurie
Student Code of Conduct (MwSU), 109, 114, 115
students, 45, 59; agency of, 129–30; Black-identified, 22–24; Black male, 39, 40; and commonplace books, 51–52; hashtag composition, 64–68; protests, 109–10, 114–15, 119, 126–28; Tumblr use, 63–64
subjectivation, 25
subjects of affectability, 24
subversion, 24–25
Sumara, Dennis, 52
surveillance, 82; of Blackness, 38–39, 141
Talkin and Testifyin (Smitherman), 87
Taylor, Keeanga-Yamahtta, 83; From #BlackLives Matter to Black Liberation, 81
teaching, 43, 45; as privileged role, 23, 27–28; subversion of, 24–25; at white university, 133–34
Teaching to Transgress (Royster), 31
“Teaching While Black” (Kynard), 25, 33
Teale, William, 78
Tef Poe, 72
terrorist attacks, September 11, 2001, 81
testimonies, testifying, 13
Texas, police brutality, 18
thingification, 143
tolerance, 57
Tometi, Opal, 88
Tumblr, 55, 156(nn14, 15, 18); as community, 55–56; hashtag composition on, 64–68; negotiating meaning on, 60–61; student use of, 63–64
“Tumblr as Commonplace Book” assignment, 18, 45, 47, 155–56(nn12, 13, 16); community and, 62–63; guidelines and purpose of, 58–59; hashtag composition, 63–68; meaning-making in, 60–62
Ubuntu/botho, 8, 11, 49, 77, 139, 144, 146
“Unframing Models of Public Distribution: From Rhetorical Situation to Rhetorical Ecologies” (Edbauer), 13
US Department of Commerce, Census, 80, 158(n10)
universities, 115, 129; as commonplace, 47–48
University of California, Berkeley, 129
University of Michigan, 129
University of Missouri, 127
University of Washington, 128
“Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom” (Wynter), 147
Vernacular Insurrections (Kynards), 33
verse, 17
Vibrant Matter (Bennett), 142
victimization, 123
victims, 28, 72; blaming, 119–20
vigilantes: policing, 82, 111, 112; white, 18, 38
Villanueva, Victor, Bootstraps, 26
violence, 6, 38, 72, 120; against Blacks, 95–96; state, 15, 44–45, 76
Viral Blackness, 45
#VirtualBlackCommunity, 70
Vives, Juan Luis, 51
voice: Black, 29; construction of, 30–31
“Voices from de Ghetto” (Singing Sandra), 137
Voices of the Self (Gilyard), 30, 33
voting rights, 72
Wake: On Blackness and Being, In the (Sharpe), 147
wake work, 8, 34–35, 77, 140, 161(n29). See also Sharpe
Walker, Alice, 94; The Color Purple, 92, 93
Wallace, Michelle, on Black women’s sexualities, 140–41
Warren, Calvin, Ontological Terror, 146
websites, university, 14, 107–8
Weheliye, Alexander, 12, 27, 37, 87
Welles, Brooke Foucault, #HashtagActivism, 48
West, Cornel, Democracy Matters, 88
“When the First Voice You Hear Is Not Your Own” (Royster), 30–31
“White Fragility” (DiAngelo), 80, 124
white institutional defensiveness, 16, 20, 79, 80–81, 82, 115, 119, 124–25, 131, 152(n22), 158(nn12, 13); and crime, 120–21
white institutions, 24, 34, 39, 119, 130, 141; Black authenticity, 28–29; diversity, 36–37; and minorities, 35–36; racial stress, 114–15; teaching at, 133–34; white supremicists at, 121–22
white middle class “struggle,” 4
white nationalists, 121; Charlottesville rally, 102, 127, 163(n10)
whiteness, 3, 4–5, 10, 28, 95, 112, 114, 105
“White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” (McIntosh), 10
white supremacy, 35, 44, 71, 84, 96–97, 124, 141; interrogation of, 42, 86–87; posters, 102–3, 105, 121–23
white universities. See white institutions
“Whose Black Lives Matter? The Politics of Black Love and Violence” (Cohen), 75–76
Wilderson, Frank B., III, 146
Williams, David R., 40
Wilson, Darren, 77, 112, 126, 135, 144
Woodson, Carter Godwin, 26
Wynter, Sylvia, 11, 12, 24, 27, 73, 76, 78, 102, 117, 122, 142, 143, 145, 155(n3), 162(n1); “A Black Studies Manifesto,” 56; “Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom,” 147
Young, Morris, Minor Re/visions, 26
Young, Vershawn, Your Average Nigga, 31, 32
Your Average Nigga (Young), 31, 32
YouTube videos: “[MwSU] Administration Threatens Expulsion against Students,” 20; #ReclaimMsSU student protest, 114