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Oct 21, 2021 · This chapter explores the content and strategy of the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL) by describing the speech that sustains and promotes the movement. It explicates the content of the movement through the protest chants and other communicative tools M4BL has borrowed from past black liberatory movements.
In 2020, Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests took place around the world, reminding us about social inequalities and racism. Through these protests, we became particularly attentive to the language and labels we use.
- Resistance, Empowerment & Decolonization
- Conclusion
- Endnotes
Black people have a uniquely complicated relationship with colonialism. As like any other colonized group, their Indigenous ways of life were stripped from them through European exploitation and assimilation, with the added trauma of extensive, intergenerational slavery. Yet, the vast majority of Black people descended from those original colonized...
With the background of Frantz Fanon’s primary chapter ‘The Black Man and Language’ in his extraordinary book Black Skin, White Masks, a cursory exploration, and analysis of the relationship between language and Black populations has been completed. Both within the abstract of general use in subjection and specific examples in the case of Creole and...
Little Bear, Leroy. “Jagged Worldviews Colliding.” Government of Alberta, 2000.,1-2 “How Languages Shape The Way We Think - Language Advantage.” Accessed April 17, 2021. https://languageadvantage.ca/how-languages-shape-the-way-we-think/. Since the mid-19th century, much of white society and academia has primarily used the term ‘African-American’, h...
Feb 6, 2020 · In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, thousands of formerly enslaved African Americans settled in small enclaves in Africa, the Caribbean, South America and Canada, where their...
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Jun 17, 2020 · In the past few weeks, Americans have turned out by the thousands to protest racial inequality and support the Black Lives Matter movement. The scope of the movement is incredible, and it goes without saying that language, and the way we use it, is particularly vital to its success.
Jun 17, 2024 · From the brutalities of American enslavement, where we were stripped from our homeland to the resilience displayed in events like the rebuilding of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black people around the world have continuously demonstrated a powerful and unparalleled capacity for transformation.
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Feb 5, 2021 · We recognized that a lot of the language that we see on Twitter and in public spaces about Black Lives Matter differs from what the leadership is trying to do, and particularly along the lines of Black Lives Matter as an intersectional movement.
