Black Lives Matter protests shift public discourse

ZO Dunivin, HY Yan, J Ince… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
We show that Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests shift public discourse toward the
movement's agenda, as captured by social media and news reports. We find that BLM …

In pursuit of racial equality: Identifying the determinants of support for the black lives matter movement with a systematic review and multiple meta-analyses

F Azevedo, T Marques, L Micheli - Perspectives on Politics, 2022 - cambridge.org
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement arose to put a much-needed spotlight on police
brutality and systemic racism. In two comprehensive studies, we sought to investigate the …

Contested killings: The mobilizing effects of community contact with police violence

KT Morris, K Shoub - American political science review, 2024 - cambridge.org
Recently, we have witnessed the politicizing effects of police killings in the United States.
This project asks how such killings might (de) mobilize voters at the local level. We draw on …

Asian Americans' indifference to Black Lives Matter: The role of nativity, belonging and acknowledgment of anti-Black racism

AJ Yellow Horse, K Kuo, EK Seaton, ED Vargas - Social Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
This paper assesses how ongoing historical racism and nativism as embedded within US
culture requires new and important dialogues about the omnipresence of White supremacy …

Intersectionality and coalitions in social movement research—A survey and outlook

S Roth - Sociology Compass, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Over the last 30 years, intersectionality has become a prominent concept, but in social
movement scholarship, its adoption has yet been limited. So far, the concept is primarily …

The Spreading of the Black Lives Matter Movement Campaign: The Italian Case in Cross‐National Perspective

D Della Porta, A Lavizzari, H Reiter - Sociological Forum, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Following the death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 and inspired by the actions of the
Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, in June 2020 a wave of protest events …

Framing the Black Lives Matter movement: An analysis of shifting news coverage in 2014 and 2020

N Carney, J Kelekay - Social Currents, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The police killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd sparked a resurgence of Black Lives
Matter protests throughout the summer of 2020, reminiscent of the wave of Black Lives …

Sex worker collectives within the whorearchy: Intersectional inquiry with sex workers in Los Angeles, CA

K Fuentes - Affilia, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Our ability to provide affirming care to individuals who engage in sex work is limited by
punitive foundations of social work. This study originates from within the sex worker rights …

Toward a moral reckoning on structural racism: Examining structural factors, encouraging structural thinking, and supporting structural intervention

S McCarty, M Liskey, D George… - American journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The racial reckoning of 2020 involved the largest social movement protest in US history, but
support for the Black Lives Matter movement declined shortly after. To advance a moral …

The affiliative use of emoji and hashtags in the Black Lives Matter movement in Twitter

M Alfano, R Reimann, IO Quintana… - Social Science …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Protests and counter-protests seek to draw and direct attention and concern with confronting
images and slogans. In recent years, as protests and counter-protests have partially …