Response: How Black Lives Matter Challenges Twentieth Century Models of Protest

Anthony Pinn
October 24, 2016
By: Josef Sorett
October 31, 2016
Responding to: Religion and Black Lives Matter
The Movement for Black Lives has earned this moniker, in part, because social media has been key to both the content and form of its organizing practices. Hashtags are made both to stage demonstrations and perform the work of memorialization (i.e. #SayHerName). Its novelty is also associated with a strident critique of what Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham named as the “politics of respectability.” This disavowal signals alienation from traditional black institutions, even as it advances a vision of racial justice that embraces class, gender, and sexual difference.
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