Racialized Slacktivism: Social Media Performances of White Antiracism

Tim Engles

Racialized Slacktivism: Social Media Performances of White Antiracism

Eastern Illinois University

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Resumen

This chapter is an analysis of common white netizens' responses to the killing of Trayvon Martin and to the viral video "Kony 2012." It argues that such responses are a form of "racialized slacktivism," that is, an effort to return to a sense of oneself as a good, happy white person by going through the motions of demonstrating an antiracist online version of oneself.

Idioma original	American English
Título de la publicación alojada	Rhetorics of Whiteness: Postracial Hauntings in Popular Culture, Social Media, and Education
Estado	Published - 2017

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities
Digital Humanities
Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies
Rhetoric and Composition

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