Agency in Borderland Discourses: Examining Language Use in a Community Center With Black Queer Youth

Autor/in	Blackburn, Mollie V.
Titel	Agency in Borderland Discourses: Examining Language Use in a Community Center With Black Queer Youth
Quelle	In: Teachers College Record, 107 (2005) 1, S.89-113 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-4681
DOI	10.1111/j.1467-9620.2005.00458.x
Schlagwörter	Language Usage; Community Centers; Homosexuality; Sexual Identity; Dialects; Youth; Social Bias + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachgebrauch; Homosexualität; Geschlechtsidentität; Sexuelle Identität; Dialect; Dialekt; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter
Abstract	This article focuses on the ways in which a small group consisting mostly of Black queer youth makes sense of their use of language to assert agency in a world that is often heterosexist, homophobic, ageist, and racist. The author draws from the work of Gee and Anzalda to identify what youth call Gaybonics, as a Borderland Discourse that is intertwined with Ebonics. The author and youth worked together in a youth-run center for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning youth to analyze the ways that these youth engaged in Gaybonics to elicit pleasure and subvert oppression, and, when their borders were violated, they shifted from this discourse to another to retaliate against hatred. When youth analyzed their use of Borderland Discourses, they came to understand the ways that they engage in such discourses to position themselves as agents and the power they can (and cannot) access by engaging in various discourses. The author asserts that youth need opportunities to explore such access to power through language, particularly in the margins, as conceptualized by hooks. Finally, the author calls for work with youth that not only supports their assertion of agency but also their efforts at activism. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10