| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Movement from the Margins -- 1. "It Means I Matter": The Emergence and Meanings of BLM -- 2. "I'm Sorry, but You're Just Segregating Yourselves": The Countermovement Rhetoric of #ALM -- 3. The Spirit Led Med: Toward an Understanding of Religious Rhetoric and Pentecostal Piety in the BLM Movement -- 4. "We're Killing People at an Astronomical Rate": #ALM, Postracialism, and the Politics of Fear -- 5. "There's Nothing Else That I Can Say": Self-Censorship in Online Racial Justice Rhetoric -- Conclusion: From Margins to Center -- References -- Index -- About the Authors. |
| Abstract |
The Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter examines the complex relationship between the Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter movements as it unfolds on social media and in offline interpersonal relationships. Exploring cultural influences like family history, fear, religion, postracialism, and workplace pressure, Edgar and Johnson trace the meanings of these movements from the persepctives of ordinary participants. The Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter highlights the motivations for investing in social movements and counter-movements to show how history, both remembered and misremembered, bubbles beneath the surface of online social justice campaigns. Social media users enact continuations of American history through a lens of their own past experiences. This book ties together online and offline, national and local, and personal and political to understand one of the defining social justice struggles of our time--back cover. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-131) and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781498572064 |
| ISBN | 9781498572057 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
| ISBN | 1498572057 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
