The Next Civil Rights Movement?

Harris, Fredrick C.

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“…#BlackLivesMatter has organized the conversation surrounding the broader Black Lives Matter movement and activist organization of the same name. Some have likened Black Lives Matter to the New Civil Rights movement [ 17 , 18 ], though the founders reject the comparison and self-describe Black Lives Matter as a ‘human rights’ movement [ 19 ].…”

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Divergent discourse between protests and counter-protests: #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter

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Since the shooting of Black teenager Michael Brown by White police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, the protest hashtag #BlackLivesMatter has amplified critiques of extrajudicial killings of Black Americans. In response to #BlackLivesMatter, other Twitter users have adopted #AllLivesMatter, a counter-protest hashtag whose content argues that equal attention should be given to all lives regardless of race. Through a multi-level analysis of over 860,000 tweets, we study how these protests and counter-protests diverge by quantifying aspects of their discourse. We find that #AllLivesMatter facilitates opposition between #BlackLivesMatter and hashtags such as #PoliceLivesMatter and #BlueLivesMatter in such a way that historically echoes the tension between Black protesters and law enforcement. In addition, we show that a significant portion of #AllLivesMatter use stems from hijacking by #BlackLivesMatter advocates. Beyond simply injecting #AllLivesMatter with #BlackLivesMatter content, these hijackers use the hashtag to directly confront the counter-protest notion of “All lives matter.” Our findings suggest that Black Lives Matter movement was able to grow, exhibit diverse conversations, and avoid derailment on social media by making discussion of counter-protest opinions a central topic of #AllLivesMatter, rather than the movement itself.

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“…Writing about the Black civil rights movement in the US, Edwards argues that the mythology of the charismatic leader is grounded in a stereotype of heteronormative masculinity which presents a sanitized and inaccurate historical account of the development of social movements. Frederick Harris (2015) has also argued that dependence on individual charismatic leaders such as Malcolm X or Martin Luther King was a strategic weakness of previous social movements. Having said that, it is inaccurate to claim that there are no leaders in Black Lives Matters (Chatelain and Asoka, 2015).…”

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Care without leaders: the collective powers of affective leadership

Munro¹,

Thanem²

2020

Paradox and Power in Caring Leadership

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The final version of this chapter is published in Leah Tomkins (ed.) (2020) Paradox and Power in Caring Leadership, pp. 199-210. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Today's leadership problem is really a symptom of a profound historical transformation, one that is currently in midstream-modern organizational forms have been destroyed and adequate replacements have not yet been invented. (Hardt and Negri, 2017, p. 8) In this chapter we articulate a concept of 'affective leadership' based on the capacity to increase our collective powers of action. Doing so, we show how leaderless movements and organizations can foster their participants' powers of action by cultivating active affects which are independent of individual leaders. Although the effectiveness of leaderless organizations and movements has already been subject to some discussion (Crevani et al., 2010; Graeber, 2013; Sutherland et al., 2014), the present chapter explains their power in terms of their ethical and affective constitution.

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“…Comprehensive studies of the hashtags #Ferguson and #BlackLivesMatter have been done by Freelon et al (2016), and other studies have analyzed Ferguson Twitter data in some detail (Bonilla and Rosa 2015;Harris 2015;Jackson and Welles 2016). Bonilla and Rosa (2015) have assessed how this "hashtag activism" helps to foster political activism more broadly.…”

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#BlackLivesMatter: Innovative Black Resistance

2019

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Since 2013, extrajudicial police killings of black people have captured the attention of U.S. and international media, substantially because of the work of leaders in the Black Lives Matter (#BLM) movement. #BLM is simultaneously a group of localized organizations and a broad online social movement. In this article, we examine the #BLM movement in detail, with particular emphasis on the following aspects of the movement: (1) its innovative organizational practices and social media use; (2) its accent on black perspectives (counterframing) of systemic racial oppression, heteronormativity, and capitalism; and (3) its broad emphasis on oppressed Americans, including black women and LGBTQ people. We also situate the #BLM movement within the surrounding system of racial oppression, including the historical role of racialized policing in maintaining social control of blacks. We detail the long tradition of black social movements, especially black feminist organizing, against systemic racial oppression. In doing so, we intend to contribute social movement theorizing that more fully considers powerful counterframed perspectives of black activists in U.S. social movements. Although the #BLM movement reflects black feminism and past civil rights movement struggles, it is a uniquely twenty‐first‐century social movement that uses new technologies for innovative social protest.

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The Next Civil Rights Movement?

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Divergent discourse between protests and counter-protests: #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter

Divergent discourse between protests and counter-protests: #BlackLivesMatter and #AllLivesMatter

Care without leaders: the collective powers of affective leadership

#BlackLivesMatter: Innovative Black Resistance

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