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Violence, borderlands and belonging: The matter of Black lives and Others [PDF]
The word “violence” usually brings to mind a harmful, physical act. This paper explores not only physical violence but also structural violence through colonial systems that has constructed the Other and have kept “them” in a perpetual state of ...
Lytle, Cynthia
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Black Lives Matter and Partisan Media
Analyzing data from a survey of U.S. adults (N = 509), our study examines the role of partisan media in (a) shaping people’s perceptions of the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, (b) producing an echo-chamber effect, influencing users to believe that ...
Sei-Hill Kim +3 more
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Absence and Presence: Nona Faustine and the Black Body in the National History of the United States
How should the history of Black Americans be included in the physical landscape and memorialised? What new visual vocabularies are needed to expand the idea of the nation?
Karen Shelby
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The Brazilian police killed 16 people per day in 2017 and 3/4 of the victims were black people. Recently, a Brazilian called Evaldo Rosa dos Santos, father, worker, musician, and black, was killed in Rio de Janeiro with 80 rifle bullets shot by the police.
Lorenzo M. Boyd, Kimberly Conway Dumpson
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Rethinking the Foundational Critiques of Lawyers in Social Movements [PDF]
This Article argues that the current moment invites reconsideration of these critiques. The rise of new social movements—from marriage equality to Black Lives Matter to the recent mobilization against President Trump’s immigration order—and the response ...
Cummings, Scott L.
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Octavia Butler’s Kindred: The Cultural Context of Production [PDF]
Through Butler’s Kindred, numerous tensions are raised around the notions of accessibility, disability, equality and inclusion exposing the crisis of black futures.
Marietta KOSMA
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Asserting that Black lives matter also means that the quality of those lives matters, and economic opportunity is inextricably linked to quality of life. Decades after the Civil Rights Movement and the passage of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,
Algernon Austin +4 more
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Black Lives, Black Words: Transnational Solidarity and Collective Artistic Activism
In 2015, playwright Reginald Edmund started the Black Lives, Black Words international project in Chicago with a series of performances responding to the Black Lives Matter movement. Black Lives, Black Words aims at exploring Afrodiasporic experiences in
Paola Prieto López
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Citizen Journalist to Activist: the Language Behind Black Lives Matter [PDF]
This study explores the discourse surrounding an event in the social movement, Black Lives Matter, to gain insights into how digital literacy practices influence and mediate participation in the 21st century civil rights movement for a new generation of ...
Colon, Valeriana
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Recognition and Redemption: Visions of Safety and Justice in Black Lives Matter
In this paper, I recover and appraise the principal ways in which movements motivated by the ideal of racial justice have sought to transform how questions of police and punishment are imagined and acted upon.
Ian Loader
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