Ebonics as cultural resistance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12357151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles Green (0000-0003-2973-4625, corresponding author), Ian Isidore Smart |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 521-526 |
| Publication date | 1997-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Peace Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1040-2659 • E-ISSN: 1469-9982 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10402659708426103 |
| OpenAlex | W2049944821 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 2 |
It has been said that a people without a sense of cultural identity can be compared to a tree without roots. Thus Africans in the diaspora, particularly those in the developed industrial regions of North America and Europe, have made the unrelenting quest for a cultural identity the central focus of their liberation struggle. Language is the quintessential ingredient of culture. In the ante belium South, White America understood all too well the consequences of succumbing to the Black quest for literacy, and thus Blacks were not permitted to learn to read and write English. White fears were so great that they even forbade Blacks from developing a distinct form of verbal expression. But as cultural critic Michael Eric Dyson explains in Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line, Blacks always sought literacy since it provided them the opportunity to reinvent themselves and to shape their identities. Frantz Fanon, the acclaimed Caribbean scholar from Martinique, presents in The Wretched of the Earth a timeless analysis of contemporary colonialism and neocolonialism, and their ultimate source: White supremacy. He describes a system that affects non‐Whites in the United States as much as those in the rest of the world—in the Caribbean, Africa, and Latin America. Fanon views these processes as fundamentally dehumanizing every single individual of the subjugated group, and thus resistance is the only valid response of the oppressed. Fanon and Dyson therefore agree that resistance provides the necessary and sufficient condition for establishing the individual's wholeness, that is, for true liberation, for authenticity, and for attaining the fullest possibilities of one's identity
Aesthetics · Art · Colonialism · Cultural identity · Decoloniality · Diaspora · Ethnology · Identity (music · Latin Americans · Martinique · Neocolonialism · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Racism · Resistance (ecology · Social science · Sociology · White (mutation · White supremacy · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · Law
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2021 (11) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |