.

Thursday, January 31, 2019

Racial Inclusivity and Social Media and The Souls of Black Folks by W.E

Modern innovation has made the selection of racial inclusivity and social media a tightrope walking affair above a neer-ending abyss. fond media when used has been a place for radicalized defense, sensitive witticism and to cavalcade swagger. Simultaneously this tool that has been disposed to culture through telephones, computers, tablets and many otherwise places has created a whole new world for inauthentic means of living. In particular in regards to the African American culture. The new New Negro, a term suggested by Marlo David has so much at their fingertips, yet do not know how to use them. She said, the new New Negro of the millennial age has sought to escape the shadowthat has been more real to him than his personality. The positive nature that African Americans escape to social media net wees to show themselves entirely serves to gallop themselves from what their blackness is. charness rooted in the brutalization of systemic objectification of their minds, b odies and expressions in various walks of life. These issues are not new to the blackamoor attend, they are pitch in the early 1900s with W.E.B. Dubois in his work, The Souls of Black Folk. His prophetic work confronted the black person then, and resonates in the infusion of Social media today in everyday life. . He writes, How does it feel to be a conundrum? I seldom answer a word. He continues, Being a problem is a strange experience - peculiar even fro one who has never been anything else, save perhaps in babyhood and in Europe. Social media has only meliorated the way African American persons are viewed, for Dubois and today, as a problem. From Duboisian experience in 1903 to Social Media and the Black Experience today, progress and problems persist.... ...BIBLIOGRAPHYCongress, T. L., & Willis, D. L. A belittled nation of people W.E.B. Du Bois and African-American portraits of progress. New York, NY HarperCollins.David, M. (2007). Afrofuturism and Post-Soul Possibi lity in Black Popular Music. African American Review , 41 (4).Dubois, W. B. (2009). The Gift of Black Folk . Garden City Park, NY Square One Publishers.DuBois, W. E. (1903). The souls of black kinsfolk essays and sketches. Chicago A.C. McClurg & Co. Cambridge University Press John Wilson and Son, Cambridge,.Neuhaus, R. (2008). The public square a keep survey of religion, culture, and public life. First Things , 184, 57-72.Schwartz, D. (1989). Visual Ethnography. Qualatative Sociology , 12 (2), 119-154.Senft, T., & Noble, S. (2013). Race and Social Media . In T. M. Jeremy Hunsinger, Routledge Handbook of Social Media (pp. 107-120). Routledge.

No comments:

Post a Comment