Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter (eBook)

Amanda Nell Edgar, Andre E. Johnson (Autoren)

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2020
164 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-7206-4 (ISBN)

Infos

This book examines the complex relationship between Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter as it unfolds on social media and in offline interpersonal relationships. In so doing, it demonstrates the ongoing influence of history within the contemporary fight for social justice.

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In The Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter, Amanda Nell Edgar and Andre E. Johnson examine the surprisingly complex relationship between Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter as it unfolds on social media and in offline interpersonal relationships. Exploring cultural influences like family history, fear, religion, postracialism, and workplace pressure, Edgar and Johnson trace the meanings of these movements from the perspectives of ordinary participants. The Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter highlights the motivations for investing in social movements and countermovements to show how history, both remembered and misremembered, bubbles beneath the surface of online social justice campaigns. Through participation in these contemporary movements, online social media users enact continuations of American history through a lens of their own past experiences. This book ties together online and offline, national and local, and personal and political to understand one of the defining social justice struggles of our time.

Autor

Amanda Nell Edgar is assistant professor of communication at the University of Memphis.Andre E. Johnson is assistant professor of communication at the University of Memphis.

Inhalt

AcknowledgementsIntroduction: A Movement from the MarginsChapter 1: “It Means I Matter”: The Emergence and Meanings of BLMChapter 2: “I’m Sorry, but You’re Just Segregating Yourselves”: The Countermovement Rhetoric of #ALMChapter 3: The Spirit Led Me: Towards an Understanding of Religious Rhetoric and Pentecostal Piety in the BLM MovementChapter 4: “We’re Killing People at an Astronomical Rate”: #ALM, Postracialism, and the Politics of FearChapter 5: “There’s Nothing Else That I Can Say”: Self-Censorship in Online Racial Justice RhetoricConclusion: From Margins to CenterReferencesAbout the Authors

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.7.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Rhetoric, Race, and Religion
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: activism • All Lives Matter • Alm • black liberation • Black lives matter • Black theology • BLM • Colorblindness • Contemporary Rhetoric • Hashtag Activism • Participatory Critical Rhetoric • Police brutality • Postracialism • Race • Racism • Social Justice • Social Media • Social Movements • United States
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-7206-5 / 1498572065
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-7206-4 / 9781498572064