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What Do You Do When Silence Is No Longer Golden?

What Do You Do When Silence Is No Longer Golden?

Darlene E. Breaux
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 17
ISBN13: 9781799872351|ISBN10: 1799872351|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799872368|EISBN13: 9781799872375
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7235-1.ch010
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Breaux, Darlene E. "What Do You Do When Silence Is No Longer Golden?." Black and Brown Leadership and the Promotion of Change in an Era of Social Unrest, edited by Sonia Rodriguez and Kelly Brown, IGI Global, 2021, pp. 230-246. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7235-1.ch010

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Breaux, D. E. (2021). What Do You Do When Silence Is No Longer Golden?. In S. Rodriguez & K. Brown (Eds.), Black and Brown Leadership and the Promotion of Change in an Era of Social Unrest (pp. 230-246). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7235-1.ch010

Chicago

Breaux, Darlene E. "What Do You Do When Silence Is No Longer Golden?." In Black and Brown Leadership and the Promotion of Change in an Era of Social Unrest, edited by Sonia Rodriguez and Kelly Brown, 230-246. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7235-1.ch010

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Abstract

For decades, the voice of Black Americans has been systematically silenced: from the beginning, when African ancestors were ripped away from their home shores of Senegambia and West-Central Africa, through the civil rights movement of the '50s and '60s, to current civil unrest after America witnessed the murder of George Floyd. The Black Lives Matter movement's rise is a direct result of Black people who are sick and tired of being silenced. The purpose of this chapter is to describe four personalities—mediator, advocator, agitator, and activator—, the situations in which each would be appropriate, and the lessons learned through these experiences. This chapter will cover a brief personal narrative of the author growing up and taught to be seen and not heard and how the sheer notion of silence is golden is no longer appropriate in times of social unrest and when lives are at risk. The author highlights the cognitive dissonance felt as a school board member amid the new social justice movement of the late 2000s.

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