Campus Racial Violence, Online Anonymity, and Critical Race Counternarratives of Student Resistance Online

• In Event: 56.081 - Roundtable Session 24
  In Roundtable Session: 56.081-1 - Critical Race Approaches, Resistance, and Black Achievement on Campus

Abstract

While on-campus climate has been widely studied, both by researchers and public news media, considerably less attention has been paid to the ways in which student communities – and broader institutional constituencies – double-down on racist rhetoric when acts of campus racial violence gain public attention outside the physical campus. More specifically, researchers have yet to systematically investigate online forums and comment sections of online campus newspapers. Therefore, the purpose of this qualitative study is to 1) interrogate the role of online anonymity in the extension of acts of campus racial violence, and 2) present counternarratives as evidence of student resistance enacted online.

Authors

• Michael Ishimoto, University of California - Los Angeles

• Charles Harold Frederick Davis, University of Pennsylvania