Social Media Takeover of African American Vernacular English by Amadea Bekoe-Tabiri https://padlet.com/abekoetabi/b4nktwcamxozitma Do our favorite apps enhance our understanding of AAVE, or help appropriate it? en-us 2020-12-09 19:59:01 UTC 2025-06-01 06:52:32 UTC hello@padlet.com Where did you have your first interaction with AAVE? abekoetabi https://padlet.com/abekoetabi/b4nktwcamxozitma/wish/1003959369 Was it your hometown? School? Online? ]]> 2020-12-09 20:22:17 UTC https://padlet.com/abekoetabi/b4nktwcamxozitma/wish/1003959369 Chun reading proposed that young Asian American men were using features of AAVE to index things like "hypermasculinity," "toughness" and "coolness." Do we think the appropriation you witness on social media has the same indexes, or is something different going on? abekoetabi https://padlet.com/abekoetabi/b4nktwcamxozitma/wish/1004283272 What do you notice when you observe the following social media examples? 
**CW: Explicit Language**]]> 2020-12-09 22:14:50 UTC https://padlet.com/abekoetabi/b4nktwcamxozitma/wish/1004283272 abekoetabi https://padlet.com/abekoetabi/b4nktwcamxozitma/wish/1004393080 2020-12-09 23:14:25 UTC https://padlet.com/abekoetabi/b4nktwcamxozitma/wish/1004393080 abekoetabi https://padlet.com/abekoetabi/b4nktwcamxozitma/wish/1004416404 2020-12-09 23:28:19 UTC https://padlet.com/abekoetabi/b4nktwcamxozitma/wish/1004416404 We ask you to recall the Chun reading, assigned earlier this semester. What aspects do you agree/disagree with? How might Chun's perspectives connect to how we observe the use of AAVE today? abekoetabi https://padlet.com/abekoetabi/b4nktwcamxozitma/wish/1004417241 2020-12-09 23:28:50 UTC https://padlet.com/abekoetabi/b4nktwcamxozitma/wish/1004417241 abekoetabi https://padlet.com/abekoetabi/b4nktwcamxozitma/wish/1004441035 2020-12-09 23:43:21 UTC https://padlet.com/abekoetabi/b4nktwcamxozitma/wish/1004441035 igrullon https://padlet.com/abekoetabi/b4nktwcamxozitma/wish/1004493549 Below is a conversation between Asian American men.]]> 2020-12-10 00:12:39 UTC https://padlet.com/abekoetabi/b4nktwcamxozitma/wish/1004493549 Chun's explanation for Jin's use of AAVE abekoetabi https://padlet.com/abekoetabi/b4nktwcamxozitma/wish/1004505691 2020-12-10 00:19:00 UTC https://padlet.com/abekoetabi/b4nktwcamxozitma/wish/1004505691 African Americans in American Media igrullon https://padlet.com/abekoetabi/b4nktwcamxozitma/wish/1004510554 2020-12-10 00:21:25 UTC https://padlet.com/abekoetabi/b4nktwcamxozitma/wish/1004510554 Lastly: Are there degrees of severity to this appropriation? Does it matter how recently the term was appropriated or what the history is, even if people aren't aware of the history? abekoetabi https://padlet.com/abekoetabi/b4nktwcamxozitma/wish/1004567447 For example, we talked a little bit in class about how the term "dude" has now almost completely lost its associations with Black culture, but in the 1930s and 1940s it was used and popularized by African Americans. Also, the word "bae."]]> 2020-12-10 00:48:34 UTC https://padlet.com/abekoetabi/b4nktwcamxozitma/wish/1004567447