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spir-8477	Steele, Catherine Knight	Blogging While Black: a critical analysis of resistance discourse by black female bloggers	2011.0	17	.pdf	application/pdf	6708	377	52	Using a typology crafted from Patricia Hill Collins’ work on the levels of oppression faced by African American women, this study will examine Black celebrity gossip blogs and the ways in which they resist or tolerate oppression at three levels: the personal, the communal and the institutional, uncovering the ways in which Black women ‘talk back’ (Hooks, 1988) to systems and structure from which they are excluded or exploited. While this work causes us to consider blogging as an avenue of incorporation into mainstream political participation, it does not chart the ways in which blogging may be used as subversive act to resist oppression by Black women in particular.	cache/spir-8477.pdf	txt/spir-8477.txt