What does it mean?
Let's see, there's Cecily at Formica:
Where some might see a challenge, or a confusing mish-mash of identity politics, I see hope. What is different about this community is that our community standard is very loosely organized, so loose in fact, that one might say that the only ticket of entry is the one drop rule. The freedom that comes from online interaction has enabled this community of black bloggers to take steps away from essentalist notions of blackness that can be at once stifling and nurturing. Blackness is whatever the individual says it is, and if we don't come up with an acceptable answer that conforms to "community" standards, well then, that's okay.
And the comments.
And there's Lynne d Johnson
Bonus: Cecily asks, what does it mean to be a black blogger? I gave one of my long-ass responses, that could very well be summed up with this statement, "In an Afrofuturism special issue of Social Text, editor Alondra Nelson writes in the introduction: "Afrofuturism can be broadly defined as "African American voices" with "other stories to tell about culture, technology, and things to come. This is what I feel black bloggers are doing." What do you think?
And mixed in with with file sharing stuff is responses from other Black bloggers.
Plus we got Luis, who get's a whole post, just scroll down.
And of course, me and my comments--which includes a thought or two on Islamic bloggers by Al-Muhajabah.
Anyone else?
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