Staywoke
Digital Engagement and Literacies in Antiracist Pedagogy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3002239 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christine "xine" Yao, Xine Yao (0000-0002-5207-2618, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 439-454 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0678 • E-ISSN: 1080-6490 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/aq.2018.0030 |
| OpenAlex | W2892559602 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
In this essay I explore how the hashtag injunction #staywoke associated with Black Lives Matter challenges digital engagement and literacies in American studies antiracist pedagogy. This phrase calls for an awakening into a sustained awareness of intersectional social justice focused on antiblackness through social media: I discuss my pedagogical experiments in teaching a course on Black American and Asian American comparative racialization, where #staywoke was the guiding principle for fostering a democratizing antiracist critical consciousness for students and myself as an educator. Following Amy E. Earhart and Toniesha L. Taylor's dispersal model for digital humanities projects, I offer pedagogical strategies and models in the project of training critical thinking and unsettling the boundaries between the classroom and the world toward a potentially transformative politics despite the pressures of neoliberal higher education. Against the tendency for digital humanities pedagogy to revolve around centralized, major projects, my methodology focuses on the development of a holistic series of assignments building digital literacies and "minor" student-led and personalized digital humanities projects. In closing, I gesture toward the implications for the limits of digital humanities pedagogy as a practice in the university and profession vulnerable to problems identified by existing critiques of public scholarship and the digital humanities
Critical pedagogy · Digital Literacy · Media studies · Pedagogy · Political science · Race (biology · Racialization · Scholarship · Social change · Social justice · Social Pedagogy · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Digital Humanities and Scholarship · Gender Studies · Radio, Podcasts, and Digital Media · University Challenges and Reforms
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |