The struggle over Black lives matter and all lives matter / by Amanda Nell Edgar and Andre E. Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Edgar, Amanda Nell, 1981- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 137 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2018]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

1 "It Means I Matter": The Emergence and Meanings of BLM p. 1

2 'I'm Sorry, but You're Just Segregating Yourselves": The Countermovement Rhetoric of #ALM p. 23

3 The Spirit Led Me: Toward an Understanding of Religious Rhetoric and Pentecostal Piety in the BLM Movement p. 47

4 "We're Killing People at an Astronomical Rate": #ALM, Postracialism, and the Politics of Fear p. 69

5 "There's Nothing Else That I Can Say": Self-Censorship in Online Racial Justice Rhetoric p. 89.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781498572057

1498572057

OCLC:

1048967782