Author: Antwann

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Georgina’s Lyric, Toward a Black American Grammar: Get Out, Black Women, the Black Historic Past, and the Message of Black Film Culture

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“These hoes ain’t loyal” –Chris Brown “And the women also knew” –Aisha Finch, Ph.D. “While contemporary black male intellectuals claim to challenge the hegemony of a racialized social formation, most fail to challenge the hegemony of their own assumptions about black masculinity.” –Hazel V. Carby, Ph.D. Grammer: the whole system and structure of a language […]

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Of Murders and Marches, Notes on (some) Women Marching: Black Women, Dangerous Men, and the Terms of Engagement

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On December 13, 2016 Sade Dixon was seated at her parents’ dining room table eating. The December dinner marked a difficult moment in Dixon’s life. Just three days earlier she moved back in with her parents as a result of experiencing physical abuse at the hands of Markeith Loyd. Before the physical altercation Dixon and […]

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Facebook and the Process of Justice

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  On Monday August 1, 2016 another hashtag in reference to a Black life and State induced death was created. This time #KorrynGaines. Amid the intra-communal dialogue in the Black community concerning Korryn, there was a silent player who was eventually revealed. As many of the Black community engaged in debates concerning whether Korryn Gaines’ […]

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An Open Letter to Men & Boys: When Black Feminism Comes Home; Lessons to be Learned Before One of the Women in Your Life Becomes the next Hashtag

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Black Feminism. It is the collective experience and narratives of women who are uniquely positioned at the margins of society due to the intersection of their gender and race. It is a discourse birth by Black women for Black women to speak their truth on the realities that they experience every day. Yes, it is […]

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Conjuring Up Mammy

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“Mammy serves to stabilize the racial and gender order, and therefore the order of the State.” -Melissa Harris-Perry, Sister Citizen   Mammy. Her position and reputation in the United States is well known. Political Scientist, Melissa Harris-Perry writes of Mammy, “she was a trusted adviser and confidante whose skills were used exclusively in service of […]