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Black Lives Matter Flashcards

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13th

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Netflix Documentary Produced by Ava DuVernay (2016)

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Black Lives Matter and the Civil Rights Movement

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Dewey Clayton 2018

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The New Jim Crow

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Michelle Alexander (2010)

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Speech on Race

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Barack Obama 2008

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Systemic Racism

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Joe Feagin (2006)

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They Cant Kill us All

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Wesley Lowley (2017)

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African Americans, Police Brutality, and the U.S. Criminal Justice System

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Clarence Taylor (2013)

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When Twitter Got Woke

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Farida Vis (2019)

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The Spirit of Black Lives Matter

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Hebah Farrag (2018)

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Hashtag Rhetoric

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Kyle Booten in #identity by Abigail de Kosnik (2019)

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Build up to Black Lives Matter:

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  1. OJ Simpson Trial - question of Race
  2. Gangsta Rap - Stereotypes
  3. The War on Drugs
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What was the War on Crime

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War on Drugs - Reagan
Racial Profiling
Crack Cocaine
Arrested and convicted low level non-violent offenders

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What was the problem of racial profiliing

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Responded to overwhelmingly that AA look more criminal

Willie Horton - George Bush campaign

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People in Jail

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Poorest affected - 97% of people don’t see a trial

Can’t afford bail

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Average black offender

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Spends 3 times a long in prison than whites

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Black teenagers

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48 times more likely to be incarcerated

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White students

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7 times more likely use powder cocaine while 8 times more crack

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The argument Dewey Clayton

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There are similarities between the CRM and BLM. CRM seen as a positive element - BLM no moral leadership yet

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Clayton concludes that

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Issue Framing
Rejection of traditional leadership
BLM yet to appeal to mainstream

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Events that led to Black Lives Matter

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Feb 26 2012 Trayvon Martin shot by George Zimmerman
Zimmerman acquitted Florida laws
Alicia Garza posted “Black people I love you, our lives matter”
Patrisse Cullors reshared with #BlackLivesMatter

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Ferguson protests

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2014 - became associated with the BLM movement - peaceful turned violent

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How has BLM used the internet?

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Used it to organise protests in response to police violence against African Americans

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Similarities and differences between CRM and BLM

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Inclusive and exclusive message
Leadership styles
Issue Framing
Media Coverage

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New York Times

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“The Truth of Black Lives Matter”

“In Unpredictable Protests”

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In Unpredicatable Protests, Oragnised Criticism of Police NYT Quote

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“They see all that is wrong with a justice system they and many others consider deeply unfair” DEC 6 2014

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The Truth of Black Lives Matter NYT Quote

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‘Demonstrators chant the phrase are making the same declarations that voting rights and civil rights made…not that black lives matter more but that historically they have not’ SEPT 4 2014

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Argument of Michelle Alexander

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Mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those who care about social justice should fully commit themselves to dismantling this new racial caste system

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What is the New Jim Crow

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Legalised discrimination, labelling Black Americans as criminals, employment discrimination, housing discrimination, denial of right to vote, denial of educational opportunity - redefined racial caste

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US Penal system

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300,000 to more than 2 million

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Black men admitted to prison

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twenty to fifty times greater than those of white men

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Mass incarceration refers not only…

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to the criminal justice sysem but also to the larger web of laws, rules, policies, and customs

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Once released from prison there is a…

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cruel new stigmatism and laws and regulation to prevent the meaningful re-integration

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How does Mass Incarceration work

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War on Drugs the main vehicle - pressure to plead guilty, got to prison, invisible punishment through discriminated against legally

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Similarities Jim Crow vs New Jim Crow

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Sigma and Shame
Legalised
Political disenfranchisement
Exclusion from juries
Residential segregation
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Argument of Joe Feagin

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Systemic Racism (2006):
Systemic segregation is entrenched, 90% of the country's history racial oppression, 10% not
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Who is Wesley Lowery

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Journalist for Washington Post - his book describes the BLM movement in the context of American and his personal history

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Who were the leaders of BLM

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Alicia Garza
Opal Tometi
Patrisse Cullors

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Black Lives Matter is better

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thought of as an ideology

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What sparked Ferguson unrest?

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Shooting of Michael Brown by Police officer Darren Willson

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Wesley Lowery states that

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Media couldnt understand the nuances due to the quickly changing nature of the story - the BLM and Ferguson became a rallying call whether they liked it or not

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Other examples of shootings and BLM

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Cleveland - Tamir Rice (2014) and Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams (2012)

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Clarence Taylor argues that

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supports Alexander’s analysis and identifies how historically, police and other law enforcement agencies have targeted African Americans and accused them of violating the law

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Petitt argues that

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Many studies and African American economic progress do not even include the large number of black men behind bars

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Farida Vis et al argues that

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Visualisation of connections between the CRM and BLM can function as a means of affirming continuities in US racism and the importance of companies like Twitter to disseminate news

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What is it to be ‘woke’

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Politically aware

Hashtag Stay Woke Twitter T-shirt worn by Deray McKesson

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Who is DeRay McKesson

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DeRay McKesson is a celebrity activist

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What is the analysis of McKesson by Farida Vis et al

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McKessons activism is used as a form of self-promotion - use of influencer status to develop and build a public profile
Social and mainstream media not grassroots - media visibility

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Issues with Twitter

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Profit driven interests that underpin the sector resulting in a superficial, ‘woke, and contradictory engagement with black political culture (Farida Vis et al)

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What does “When Twitter Got Woke” do?

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Looks at the way that live-streaming and media online is able to quickly disseminate information across the internet

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What does Kyle Booten argue?

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The use of hashtag politics is not just a tool of online use but are also themselves objects of political discussion or protests in their own rights

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Use of hashtag to draw…

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attention but also metapolitics - both central and peripheral to the movement

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There are difficulties in carrying out online activism

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as the hashtags can be easily hijacked through use of tweet together to sow discourse

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Internet Trolls

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A person who starts quarrels or upsets people on the internet to distract and sow discourse by posting inflammatory and digressive, extraneous, or off-topic messages

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Issue of All Lives Matter

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Rhetorical move towards humanity, but that it insidiously denies or silences the grievances of BLM - can be used to support or antagonise - problematic

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All lives matter

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Hashtag, but has inherently white supremacist connotations

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When All Lives Matter and Blm shown together

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used to support mostly, but when used individually usually not

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Issues over…

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solidarity, MuslimLivesMatter, devisions, precarious

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