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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"Black Lives Matter"”.
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Doing the work : the Black Lives Matter Movement in Austin, Texas
This dissertation explores the tension in Black political thought between redemptive and revolutionary frameworks for social change. The following study, the first ethnography of the Black Lives Matter Movement (BLMM), situates this longstanding debate within the context of our present moment. …
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How Black Lives Matter Has Influenced and Interacted with Global Social Movements
<p>Black Lives Matter (BLM) is a chapter-based and member-led organization created out of grief by three queer black women. This thesis examines the international impact of BLM. I conducted telephone interviews with activists and advocacy organizations who have organized activist networks and/or …
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Black Lives Matter: Black Educators Navigating the Dynamics of Racism in Leicester Secondary Schools
… is a study of the lived experiences of twenty Black educators of African heritage who have worked in Leicester secondary schools for the past forty years. To date, these educators have been largely invisible in their contributions to the British pedagogy that defines what it means to be an …
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The Kneel for Social Justice: Colin Kaepernick, Megan Rapinoe, and The Black Lives Matter Movement
In 2016 Colin Kaepernick captured the attention of America when he did not stand for the playing of the national anthem before a National Football League preseason game to protest racist police violence. Shortly thereafter, Megan Rapinoe a female professional soccer player chose to support …
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Measuring the Connective Action of Black Lives Matter Activists: A Psychometric Investigation into Twitter Data
… tweet streams from 184 activists involved in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate how connective action can be operationalized through quantification, illustrate how in-situ data sources can be used for statistical modeling, and provide a resource for …
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Black moms matter: competing discourses of black motherhood in the age of black lives matter
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-14 without embargo terms
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Creole Resistance in Louisiana from Colonization to Black Lives Matter: Activism’s Deep-Rooted Role in Creole Identity
… identity is often merely reduced to a form of blackness because of the constructed Black and white divide within the U.S. South, but Creole identity has both been associated with blackness and had access to the privileges of whiteness, creating a hybrid identity formation. Strategically Creoles …
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#BlackLivesMatter: How a hashtag maintains a movement: A content analysis of the Black Lives Matter hashtag on Twitter
… the frequency of engagement with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter by Twitter users. The data collection consisted of tweets shared between the time frame of July 17, 2014, to August 17, 2014. The methodology used was content analysis, which included the examination of the volume of Twitter tweets …
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Hip Hop Voices in the era of Mass Incarceration: An examination of Kendrick Lamar and The Black Lives Matter Movement
… through the music of Kendrick Lamar and The Black Lives Matter Movement. This thesis presents the questions: What is the era of Mass Incarceration? How does Kendrick Lamar's music inform the problems of Mass Incarceration? How does The Back Lives Matter Movement use this information to create …
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SPRING INTO ACTION FOR BLACK WOMEN: EXAMINING THE BLACK LIVES MATTER ORGANIZATION’S TWITTER COVERAGE OF STATE-SANCTIONED VIOLENCE AGAINST BLACK WOMEN
… the Twitter rhetoric produced by the Black Lives Matter organization to understand how they discuss and engage state-sanctioned violence against cisgender and transgender black women. Relying upon intersectional theory and virtual public sphere theory for theoretical framing, a textual …
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If Your Friends Joined A Movement, Would You Do It Too? How Intergroup Contact Leads to Participation in the Black Lives Matter Movement
… of intergroup contact on participation in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement is assessed. Using survey data collected by the researcher on both a student sample and a general sample of the population, it is found that greater amounts of intergroup contact with African Americans predicts …
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Racial threat theory and Black Lives Matter: advancing our understanding of police killings of Black Americans and consequential civil resistance in contemporary America
Until recently research on Black civil resistance in America has remained heavily concentrated on the Civil Rights Movement. However, the rise of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has created an opportunity to advance this field of literature beyond the Civil Rights Movement. Given that this …
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FROM BLACK LIVES MATTER TO WE DON’T EVEN MATTER: THE INVISIBLE HAND OF POWER ON SOCIAL MOVEMENT PARTICIPATION AND ACTIVISM IN URBAN AND RURAL SPACES
… three questions. What do participants in Black Lives Matter reveal about the movement and internal power dynamics? How does power manifest itself in public hearing spaces? How do Black people living in the rural South engage in the Environmental Justice Movement? I explore power within …
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Teacher Sensemaking in Times of Crisis: A Case Study of the Teaching of High School Ethnic Studies Classes During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Black Lives Matter Protests
… during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests. Ethnic studies classes provided an important case, because ethnic studies tends to adopt culturally relevant and community responsive pedagogies through the study of historically marginalized groups and the …
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The roots and influences of radical Black women in the 21st century
… concepts that define the lived experiences of Black women in the United States. Black women’s experiences of police violence at the intersections of gender, race, and class, particularly, have helped to create radical critiques of the system of white supremacy and police brutality. My thesis …
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Civil Unrest in the Untied State of America: Facing the Threat
… exclusively on the events surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement. By applying political theory to concrete events, it attempts to expose the mechanics of capitalist state repression as presented in its current form. Central themes are police violence, state repression, popular …
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Drag, Drugs, and Demonstrations: Cultural Subversion under Capitalism
… a more explicitly political movement, the black liberation movement and its various permutations: the civil rights movement, the black power movement and the Black Panther Party, and the recent Black Lives Matter movement. Finally, I will assess the applicability of this theory to the …
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The Black Body in Political Photography, 1990-2020
Black political art has been an important element of Black liberation efforts in the 20th and 21st centuries. Black artist-activists of the past and present have demonstrated a concern with systems of oppression that perpetuate multiple forms of racial trauma in the lives of Black people. This …
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