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Black or Right: Index

Black or Right

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Index

academy, academics, 26, 35

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

Africans, 11, 12

Afropessimism, 11, 144

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

#AliveWhileBlack, 53, 145

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

Anglin, Andrew, 127, 163(n10)

animacy hierarchies, 143

annotation, Black, 45–46

antiBlackness, 105, 123, 140, 141; objects of, 143–44

antihumanism, Black, 11, 144

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

Aristotle, 51, 151(n13)

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)

Banks, Adam, 10, 50

Barad, Karen, 24, 76, 143

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

Black English, 30, 87

“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

Blacktags, 45, 154(n1)

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

Brock, Andre, 45, 48

Brooms, Derrick, 38, 39

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

Chow-White, Peter, 45, 54

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

Conley, Tara L., 44, 49, 145

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 memory, 34, 79

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

Daily Stormer, 127, 163(n10)

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

demographics, 14, 18

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

discourse, 49, 142

display, 35

diversity, 15–16, 18, 19; MwSU, 107, 118; and public safety alerts, 108–9, 119–20; white institutions, 36–37, 129

Dolezal, Rachel, 75, 157(n2)

dominance, 6, 14

double consciousness, 86, 89

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

environment, 12, 78

epistemic rupture, hashtags as, 56–57

equality, 57, 73

Erasmus, De Copia, 51

Estrada, Elette, 78

Facebook, 5–6, 55, 155(n10)

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, 53, 76, 77

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

Frazier, Demita, 93, 140

framing, 27

Freelon, Deen, 53, 72

Freire, Paolo, 49

Fruitvale Station (Oakland), 129

fugitive study, 57

Gaillet, Lynee Lewis, 52

Garner, Eric, 53, 56, 139

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)

gender, 10, 30

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)

Grusin, Richard, 48, 129

hair straightening, 117–18

Hammonds, Evelynn, Black women’s sexualities, 140–41

#HandsUpDontShoot, 72, 136

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

histories, 33, 50, 77, 93–95

historiography, generative role of, 20

home, safety of, 41–42

hooks, bell, 26; Teaching to Transgress, 31

humanism, Black, 11, 144

Hunger of Memory (Rodriguez), 26

hypermasculine performance, 29

#ICantBreathe, 129, 139, 145

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

im/migrants, Black, 4–5, 75

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

institutions, 28, 29

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)

Jim Crow, defacto, 95, 96

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

kairotic spaces, 24, 40

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

Lemonade (Beyoncé), 98, 99

LGBT, on Tumblr, 56

Liberal Arts College, 34

Liberal Arts College Magazine, 34

LinkedIn, 53

listening, rhetorical, 10, 54

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

Lyon, Arabella, 116, 117

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

Miller, Susan, 52, 155(n4)

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

Nakamura, Lisa, 45, 54

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

oppressions, 12, 71, 73

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)

place, 14; rightful, 135–36

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, 13, 17, 28, 56, 79

“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

Puwar, Nirmal, 36, 102

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 meaning, 8, 20

racial realism, 11, 131, 144

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

#Reclaim[MwSu], 109, 130

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

Rice, Jenny, 104, 162(n1)

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

#SayHerName, 72, 91

#SayHisName, 72

scholarship, 13; people of color, 10–11, 35

ScHoolboy Q, 23, 152(n2)

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

Sharma, Sanjay, 45, 154(n1)

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 death, 9, 77, 87

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

spirituality, 85, 99

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

storytelling, 26, 27, 29, 33

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

tokenization, 5, 33, 36, 138

tolerance, 57

Tometi, Opal, 88

Trump, Donald, 82, 104, 124

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

Twitter, 53, 55, 61, 63, 135

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

video, evidence on, 15, 126

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 racial habitus, 10, 14

white spaces, 6, 44, 140

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

Winfrey, Oprah, 92, 117

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

#YouOKSis?, 53, 139

Your Average Nigga (Young), 31, 32

YouTube videos: “[MwSU] Administration Threatens Expulsion against Students,” 20; #ReclaimMsSU student protest, 114

zone of non-Being, 77, 142–43

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