This Ain't Wakanda: How Black Youth Leverage Our Technological Expertise to Cultivate Joy

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Abstract

Black undergraduates have continuously found ingenious ways to counter white supremacy while attending institutions that are determined to uphold it. The authors engage in this critical co-constructed autoethnographic study to honor how we - as Black undergraduates - leveraged our community and technology to resist, heal, and create joy while being undergraduates at the University of Missouri-Columbia. We engage in a content analysis of our own tweets to answer the following research question: How did we foster fugitive spaces that centered joy, life and healing in the midst of oppressive, anti-Black collegiate environments?

Authors

• Alexis E. Hunter, University of Colorado - Boulder
  Presenting Author

• Caleb A. Sewell, Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville
  Presenting Author