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- Appropriation vs. Authenticity: The Use of Black Vernacular English by White SpeakersHonors bachelors thesis by Tamara Petrov from Suffolk University. "This research investigates the authenticity of white speakers of Black Vernacular English (BVE)"
- A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part IArticle by journalist Jason Parham in Wired. "From #UKnowUrBlackWhen to #BlackLivesMatter, how a loose online network became a pop culture juggernaut, an engine of social justice, and a lens into the future."
- So Much Modern Slang Is AAVE. Here’s How Language Appropriation Erases The Influence Of Black Culture.Article from journalist Sydnee Thompson in Buzzfeed News. "[N]on-Black people are constantly using either real or imagined proximity to Black Americans and their cultures in an attempt to seem cool, sexy, and threatening in equal measure... [and] they’re profiting off it without having to deal with the legacies of racist segregation, redlining, overpolicing, and disinvestment in the same ways Black people do.
- Voicing the Other: Mock AAVE on Social MediaMasters thesis in Linguistics by Hanna Smokoski from CUNY. "This project looks at the use on social media sites of features of African American Vernacular English by nonspeakers of it...[N]onspeakers of AAVE use features of it to annex certain positive qualities associated with Black or hip hop culture— toughness, coolness, an anti-establishment stance—for themselves, while reproducing negative stereotypes of the people generally thought to speak AAVE."
Books in Saint Mary's Libraries
So You Want to Talk about Race by Call Number: Winona General Collection - Lower Level 305.8 O52ISBN: 9781580056779Publication Date: 2018In this book, the author offers a clarifying discussion of the racial landscape in America, addressing head-on the issues that divide us. Positioned to bridge the gap between people of color and white Americans struggling with race complexities, she explains the concepts that continue elude everyday Americans, and answers the questions readers don't dare ask. Chapter 10: What is cultural appropriation?
Linguistic Justice: Black language, literacy, identity, and pedagogy by Call Number: Winona General Collection - Lower Level 427.973 B16ISBN: 9781138551015Publication Date: 2020"Bringing together theory, research, and practice to dismantle Anti-Black Linguistic Racism and white linguistic supremacy, this book provides ethnographic snapshots of how Black students navigate and negotiate their linguistic and racial identities across multiple contexts."
Appropriate: a provocation by Call Number: Winona General Collection - Upper Level 808.02 R38ISBN: 9781324003588Publication Date: 2021"In this book, the author addresses a young writer to delineate how the idea of cultural appropriation has evolved--and perhaps calcified--in our political climate. What follows is an exploration of fluctuating literary power and authorial privilege, about whiteness and what we really mean by the term 'empathy.'"
