Black Girl Autopoetics

Black Girl Autopoetics Agency in Everyday Digital Practice

Hardback (27 Feb 2024)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781478020851
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Imprint: Duke University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 004.678082
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 176
Weight: 572g
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm