The Black Queer Work of Ratchet Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the (Anti)Politics of Respectability /

• Main Author: Lane, Nikki (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Ethnology.; African Americans.; Sociology.; Linguistic anthropology.; Communication.; Cultural Anthropology.; African American Culture.; Gender Studies.; Linguistic Anthropology.; Media and Communication.

This book enters as a corrective to the tendency to trivialize and (mis)appropriate African American language practices. The word ratchet has entered into a wider (whiter) American discourse the same way that many words in African American English have-through hip-hop and social media. Generally, ra...