Counterpublic

An account of this sort provides a historicized moral foundation for a conception of counterpublic spheres more capable of undertaking a (decentered and multifaceted) critique of systematically distorted communication.

In other words, with this book they form a “counterpublic” to what they saw as a dominant, adult-controlled public sphere.

It is incorrect to conceive of the black counterpublic as historically static or as ideologically cohesive at any given historical moment.