Amanda Nell Edgar, Andre E. Johnson

The Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978750555
• Artikelnr.: 74829471

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Movement from the Margins
Chapter 1: "It Means I Matter": The Emergence and Meanings of BLM
Chapter 2: "I'm Sorry, but You're Just Segregating Yourselves": The
Countermovement Rhetoric of #ALM
Chapter 3: The Spirit Led Me: Towards an Understanding of Religious
Rhetoric and Pentecostal Piety in the BLM Movement
Chapter 4: "We're Killing People at an Astronomical Rate": #ALM,
Postracialism, and the Politics of Fear
Chapter 5: "There's Nothing Else That I Can Say": Self-Censorship in Online
Racial Justice Rhetoric
Conclusion: From Margins to Center
References
About the Authors