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ABSTRACT This article examines Kimberlé Crenshaw’s interview on Democracy Now! in 2015 and her 2016 TEDTalk, “The Urgency of Intersectionality,” to theorize Black women’s “activist rhetoric of blame.” Crenshaw enacts three distinctive features of Black feminist pedagogy in her activism for the #SayHerName Campaign. She challenges traditional “frames” of antiBlack police brutality, uses blaming vocabulary from a Black woman’s standpoint to create new frames, and names an audiences’ “revolutionary potential” in dismantling misogynoir in the justice system. An activist rhetoric of blame expands frames in dominant discourses so that the collective blame toward an institution can encompass intersectional oppression.
本文考察了金伯利·洛伊尔·克伦肖在《现在民主!》以及她在2016年的ted演讲“交叉性的紧迫性”(The Urgency of Intersectionality),将黑人女性“激进的指责言辞”理论化。克伦肖在“说出她的名字”运动中体现了黑人女权主义教育学的三个显著特征。她挑战反黑人警察暴行的传统“框架”,从黑人女性的角度使用指责词汇来创造新的框架,并指出观众在消除司法系统中对女性的厌恶方面的“革命潜力”。一种激进的指责修辞扩大了主导话语的框架,因此对一个机构的集体指责可以包括交叉压迫。
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Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (CC/CS) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. CC/CS publishes original scholarship that situates culture as a site of struggle and communication as an enactment and discipline of power. The journal features critical inquiry that cuts across academic and theoretical boundaries. CC/CS welcomes a variety of methods including textual, discourse, and rhetorical analyses alongside auto/ethnographic, narrative, and poetic inquiry.