9780190935535-0190935537-Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism

Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism

ISBN-13: 9780190935535
ISBN-10: 0190935537
Author: Allissa V. Richardson
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 296 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780190935535
ISBN-10: 0190935537
Author: Allissa V. Richardson
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback 296 pages

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Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism (ISBN-13: 9780190935535 and ISBN-10: 0190935537), written by authors Allissa V. Richardson, was published by Oxford University Press in 2020. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other Writing (Writing, Research & Publishing Guides) books. You can easily purchase or rent Bearing Witness While Black: African Americans, Smartphones, and the New Protest #Journalism (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Writing books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.64.

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Bearing Witness While Black tells the story of this century's most powerful Black social movement through the eyes of 15 activists who documented it. At the height of the Black Lives Matter uprisings, African Americans filmed and tweeted evidence of fatal police encounters in dozens of UScities--using little more than the device in their pockets. Their urgent dispatches from the frontlines spurred a global debate on excessive police force, which claimed the lives of African American men, women, and children at disproportionate rates.This groundbreaking book reveals how the perfect storm of smartphones, social media, and social justice empowered Black activists to create their own news outlets, which continued a centuries-long, African American tradition of using the news to challenge racism. Bearing Witness While Black is thefirst book of its kind to identify three overlapping eras of domestic terror against African American people--slavery, lynching, and police brutality--and explain how storytellers during each period documented its atrocities through journalism. What results is a stunning genealogy--of how the slavenarratives of the 1700s inspired the Abolitionist movement; how the black newspapers of the 1800s galvanized the anti-lynching and Civil Rights movements; and how the smartphones of today have powered the anti-police brutality movement. This lineage of black witnessing, Allissa V. Richardson argues,is formidable and forever evolving.Richardson's own activism, as an award-winning pioneer of smartphone journalism, informs this text. Weaving in personal accounts of her teaching in the US and Africa, and of her own brushes with police brutality, Richardson shares how she has inspired black youth to use mobile devices, to speak upfrom the margins. It is from this vantage point, as participant-observer, that she urges us not to become numb to the tragic imagery that African Americans have documented. Instead, Bearing Witness While Black conveys a crucial need to protect our right to look into the forbidden space of violenceagainst black bodies, and to continue to regard the smartphone as an instrument of moral suasion and social change.

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