Black Digital Life: Respectability, Ratchetness, and Excessive Life

15/09/2023 1h 3min Temporada 8
Black Digital Life: Respectability, Ratchetness, and Excessive Life

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On this episode of Broke-ish, Erika talks with Dr. Andre Brock about Black people in digital spaces. Dr. Brock helps us to understand some of the history of the internet to help contextualize the current role it and technology play in helping Black people create and curate community in an online world. We talk about everything from ratchetness and respectability, and how Black people reclaim spaces even under the threat of dispossession. Despite all of the reasons to have for defeat, we choose optimism, and hope you will, too.