Thursday, March 14, 2019

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

novel innovation has made the excerption of racial inclusivity and amicable media a tightrope walk of life affair above a never-ending abyss. Social media when used has been a place for radicalized defense, sensitive humor and to cavalcade swagger. Simultaneously this tool that has been disposed to close through telephones, computers, tablets and many other places has created a whole in the raw military man for inauthentic means of living. In particular in regards to the African American culture. The cutting cutting Negro, a term suggested by Marlo David has so much(prenominal) 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 fill inthat has been more real to him than his personality. The arbitrary nature that African Americans escape to social media networks to show themselves only serves to cover themselves from what their blackness is. Blackness rooted in the brutalization of systemic objectification of their minds, bodies and expressions in various walks of life. These issues are not new to the Black experience, they are found 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 problem? I seldom answer a word. He continues, Being a problem is a strange experience - shady even fro one who has never been anything else, save perhaps in infancy 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 hump today, progress and problems persist.... ...BIBLIOGRAPHYCongress, T. L., & Willis, D. L. A small nation of people W.E.B. Du Bois and African-American portraits of progress. New York, NY HarperCollins.David, M. (2007). Afrofuturism and P ost-Soul Possibility in Black Popular Music. African American reexamine , 41 (4).Dubois, W. B. (2009). The Gift of Black Folk . Garden City Park, NY whole One Publishers.DuBois, W. E. (1903). The souls of black folk essays and sketches. Chicago A.C. McClurg & Co. Cambridge University Press John Wilson and Son, Cambridge,.Neuhaus, R. (2008). The mankind square a continuing survey of religion, culture, and public life. First Things , 184, 57-72.Schwartz, D. (1989). opthalmic 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.

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