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Weather to Protest: The Effect of Black Lives Matter Protests on the 2020 Presidential Election
Do mass mobilizations drive social change? This paper explores this question by studying how the Black Lives Matter protests following George Floyd’s...
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Race, Prejudice and Support for Racial Justice Countermovements: The Case of “Blue Lives Matter”
In this article, we develop and test three propositions related to the status of a primary counterpoint of the Black Lives Matter (BLM)...
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Race, Policing, and Black Lives Matter
The chapter looks at the recent growth of the Black Lives Matter campaign in the wake of the death of George Floyd as a result of police violence and...
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Black Lives Matter in the Time of Trump and Beyond
In the history of the settler colony called the United States of America, people of African-descent have coalesced around social and political...
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Black Lives Matter in Japan: The Specter of Race and Racism Haunting Japan
Although Black Lives Matter (BLM) impacted the US 2020 election, it was more background in Japan’s 2021 polls but brought important issues of race...
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Black Youth Activism Was Pivotal to the Civil Right Movement: How Black Lives Matter Is Inspiring Education Activists of Today
Many of the Civil and Human Rights protections that Black and other people of color, individuals with disabilities, and gay, lesbian, queer, and...
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Voicing Support for Black Lives Matter in Congress and Its Impact on the 2020 House Elections
The killing of George Floyd at the hands of police in the spring of 2020 not only refocused attention on racial inequality in America but also seemed...
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Social Control and ‘Black Lives Matter’
If issues of social injustice and social control needed to be made more open and explicit in the USA and UK during an era of more authoritarian...
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Black Identity and Voting
This chapter demonstrates the impact which identity can have on one’s ultimate vote choice. In the case of Black voters in the United States, their...
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Black Lives Matter’s Role in the 2020 Presidential Election: An Assessment of Individual and District-Level Data
The Trump Presidency backlash and the 2020 election cycle included the rise of the most prominent and contentious social civil rights movement of the...
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Introduction: Defining Black Marxist Feminism
This chapter, as an introduction, attends to defining and providing the boundaries for hooks’ “black Marxist feminism,” and the extent that it...
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In a Country Boasting a Welfare State, Do Black Lives Matter Less?
The chapter traces how British politicians and institutions used and abused visibly distinguishable ‘strangers’ to fill labour shortages and maintain...
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Theories of Value for Black Womanhood
This chapter explains the proletariat experiences of black womanhood, as hooks theorizes in Ain’t I a Woman in terms of sexism and black female slave...
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Holy Nations: How White Racism Boosts Black Support for Christian Nationalism
Current work on Christian nationalism emphasizes its strong correlation with exclusion of racial minorities and support for racialized policy, but...
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The Proletariat Experiences of Black Womanhood
This chapter defines “the proletariat experiences of black womanhood,” as central to hooks’ view of capitalism, beginning in Ain’t I a Woman, and as...
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With All Due Respect: Respectability Politics and Black Support for Police Defunding and Abolition
This study explores whether respectability politics, the notion that marginalized groups should adhere to mainstream social norms of behavior and...
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Listening to Black lives matter: racial capitalism and the critique of neoliberalism
This article explores left critiques of neoliberalism in light of the Black Lives Matter movement’s (BLM) recourse to the notion of ‘racial...
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The consequences of urban riots in France and the United States: a comparative review
This paper draws on a literature review to provide a comparative analysis of the short-term and long-term consequences of urban riots in France and...