| dc.contributor |
Varda, Scott Joseph. |
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| dc.creator |
Nave, Nicole D., 1994- |
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| dc.date |
2021-07-14T14:08:44Z |
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| dc.date |
2021-07-14T14:08:44Z |
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| dc.date |
2021-05 |
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| dc.date |
2021-05-07 |
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| dc.date |
May 2021 |
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| dc.date |
2021-07-14T14:08:45Z |
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| dc.date.accessioned |
2022-05-18T12:12:57Z |
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| dc.date.available |
2022-05-18T12:12:57Z |
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| dc.identifier |
https://hdl.handle.net/2104/11483 |
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| dc.identifier.uri |
http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/29579 |
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| dc.description |
This thesis analyzes the discursive practices of US Vice President Kamala Harris, US Representative Maxine Waters, and US Representative Ilhan Omar. It posits Black femme style as a productive way to analyze the rhetorical performances of these political figures. Exploring a multiplicity of rhetorical performances, I identify rhetorical acts of racialized and sexualized violence directed toward these women by President Trump, while also outlining the “survival strategies” Black femme politicians have enunciated as a form of collective resistance. In so doing, I explain a Black femme style of political clapback as a rhetorical performance. The thesis examines tweets, memes and public debates. It also partially corrects the underrepresentation of Black women in the field of communication. Black femme politicians participate in a radical form of subject-making that counteracts narratives of Black political failure, spotlighting the resiliency of Black femme politicians in the era of MAGA politics. |
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application/pdf |
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| dc.format |
application/pdf |
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| dc.format |
application/pdf |
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| dc.language |
en |
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| dc.rights |
No access – contact librarywebmaster@baylor.edu |
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| dc.subject |
Black feminism. Clapback. Kamala Harris. Maxine Waters. Ilhan Omar. |
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| dc.title |
Sick and tired of being sick and tired : visual rhetorical practices of black feminist clapback. |
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| dc.type |
Thesis |
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| dc.type |
text |
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