The black queer work of ratchet : race, gender, sexuality, and the (anti)politics of respectability / Nikki Lane.

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, r...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author:	Lane, Nikki (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Subjects:	African American women > Social conditions. African American sexual minorities > Social conditions. Middle class African Americans > Social conditions. Black English.