Intersectional Black Womanhood: Analyzing the Digital Sociolinguistic Practices of Black Female Millennials

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Abstract

This poster explores emergent themes in transcripts from ethnographic interviews conducted with Black female millennials attending colleges and universities in Maryland. Utilizing the understanding that younger generations, including the generation known as millennials, have grown up in an era where digital communication and self-expression is the norm and “the virtual is real” (Sadler, 2012, p. 3), the politics of identity for marginal groups becomes pervasive. Even more fascinating are the intersectional identity negotiation practices that marginal groups like Black female millennials engage in as they cultivate themselves in resistant positionalities across race, class, and gender within these sociocultural digital landscapes.

Presenter

• Erin L. Berry, The University of Maryland, Baltimore County