Black Lives Matter for Whites’ Racial Prejudice: Assessing the Role of Social Movements in Shaping Racial Attitudes in the United States

Mazumder, Soumyajit

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“…A growing body of work has found protests do, indeed, impact political beliefs. Specifically, Whites became moderately less racially resentful towards Blacks as a result of BLM protests, although these results were heterogeneous with respect to age (Mazumder 2019). Additionally, it has also been shown that nonviolent political protests movements can spur citizens to vote (Madestam et al 2013; Wasow 2017).…”

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“…However, existing empirical evidence of protest efficacy is still relatively sparse and is limited to relatively few protest movements. Although the BLM movement has lessened racial resentment (Mazumder 2019), it is unknown whether that change has had measurable impacts on police practices.…”

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“…Although the BLM movement was widespread and well known, little is documented about the impacts it may have had. Recent research has found that BLM protests are more likely to happen in locations where there has recently been a fatal interaction with police (Williamson, Trump, and Einstein 2018), and that the BLM protests decreased racial resentment towards Blacks (Mazumder 2019). However, it is unknown whether the increased protests and lessening racial resentment have had an impact on racial disparity within the justice system.…”

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Black Lives Matter Protests, Fatal Police Interactions, and Crime

Skoy

2020

Contemporary Economic Policy

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The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement was a prominent social movement largely focused on raising awareness of and reducing police use‐of‐force and fatal interactions with police. However, opponents of the movement have feared it could lead to decreased proactive policing and increased crime. Using a state‐by‐month fixed effects model, I find evidence that an additional protest in the preceding month leads to a decrease of .225 fatal interactions between Blacks and police per 10 million Black population. In addition, I find no evidence supporting increased crime or arrests as a result of the BLM movement. (JEL J15, D91, Z13)

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Black Lives Matter Protests, Fatal Police Interactions, and Crime

Skoy

2020

Contemporary Economic Policy

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“…While protest movements like those associated with the Black Lives Matter movement may affect perceptions of discrimination against blacks and perceptions of the police, it is less clear what impact they can have on racist attitudes more broadly. There is evidence that the protests associated with the Black Lives Matter movement in 2014-following the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Gardner in New York City-did have a negative effect on racial prejudice among whites who lived in the same county where a protest occurred (Mazumder 2019). Given the national resonance of George Floyd's death compared to those of Michael Brown and Eric Gardner, I expect a similar pattern to be detectable across the country in the summer of 2020.…”

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The effect of the 2020 racial justice protests on attitudes and preferences in rural and urban America

Curtis

2021

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective: This paper seeks to understand the impact of sustained protests for racial justice on attitudes toward racial minorities, the police, and policies that would benefit racial minorities. Methods: Using a large, nationally representative survey collected before and after the death of George Floyd and the protest movement that followed it, I employ a propensity score matching to identify the causal impact of these protests on perceptions of discrimination against blacks, favorability of the police, racial prejudice, and support for reparations for slavery. I also identify heterogeneous effects in rural America to identify the limits of these attitude shifts. Results: I find evidence that George Floyd's death caused an increased perception of discrimination against blacks, decreased favorability of the police, decreased racial prejudice, and increased support for reparations. I also find muted and heterogeneous effects in rural America. Conclusion: These findings speak to the power of social protest to shift attitudes and policy preferences and to the persistent divide between urban and rural Americans.On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was killed while being placed in police custody. His death sparked the largest sustained protest movement in the history of the United States (Putnam, Chenoweth, and Pressman 2020). Particularly interesting to this phenomenon was its presence across the United States: seemingly as likely in urban areas as in rural areas (Robertson 2020; Gaarder 2020). Given recent evidence that protest movements centered on issues of race and policing can influence public opinion (Enos and Sands 2019; Mazumder 2019), this paper seeks to understand the immediate impact of George Floyd's death and the protest movement that followed on public opinion in rural and suburban communities. Because there is evidence that the impact of attitudinal shifts may have been temporary in the aftermath of George Floyd's death (Thomas and Horowitz 2020), this paper focuses on identifying shifts in the turbulent month immediately following George Floyd's death by leveraging responses to a nationally representative survey fielded between January 2 and July 1, 2020.Past research suggests that large-scale protest movements can play a role in shifting political outcomes and attitudes. Protests during the Civil Rights Movement seem to have impacted political outcomes in the South by increasing black electoral turnout and the number of blacks running for political office (Andrews 90

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“…Prior work has demonstrated the role of economic conditions, political repression, exclusion of racial, ethnic, or economic minorities, use of force, (mis)information campaigns and social media in explaining when and where protests (Steinert-Threlkeld, 2017;Chyzh and Labzina, 2018;Justino and Martorano, 2019;Fergusson and Molina, 2020;Martinez, Jessen and Xu, 2020;Manacorda and Tesei, 2020), riots (Sullivan, 2019;Hsiao and Radnitz, 2020), violence (Müller and Schwarz, 2020), and armed opposition movements emerge (Oppenheim et al, 2015;Dippel and Heblich, 2021). A significant body of research has also provided evidence that these instances of collective action have affected political reforms (Tarrow, 1994;Rasler, 1996;Kurzman, 1996;Chenoweth and Stephan, 2008;Gillion, 2013;Andrews and Gaby, 2015;Klein and Regan, 2018;De Vogel, 2020), voting patterns (Wasow, 2020;Enos, Kaufman and Sands, 2019;Larreboure and González, 2019), social attitudes and cohesion (Branton et al, 2015;Muñoz and Anduiza, 2019;Mazumder, 2019), and economic activity.…”

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Profiling Insurrection: Characterizing Collective Action Using Mobile Device Data

Dijcke

Wright

2021

SSRN Journal

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We develop a novel approach for estimating spatially dispersed community-level participation in mass protest. This methodology is used to investigate factors associated with participation in the 'March to Save America' event in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021. This study combines granular location data from more than 40 million mobile devices with novel measures of community-level voting patterns, the location of organized hate groups, and the entire georeferenced digital archive of the social media platform Parler. We find evidence that partisanship, socio-political isolation, proximity to chapters of the Proud Boys organization, and the local activity on Parler are robustly associated with protest participation. Our research fills a prominent gap in the study of collective action: identifying and studying communities involved in mass-scale events that escalate into violent insurrection.

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Black Lives Matter for Whites’ Racial Prejudice: Assessing the Role of Social Movements in Shaping Racial Attitudes in the United States

Cited by 18 publications

References 23 publications

Black Lives Matter Protests, Fatal Police Interactions, and Crime

Black Lives Matter Protests, Fatal Police Interactions, and Crime

The effect of the 2020 racial justice protests on attitudes and preferences in rural and urban America

Profiling Insurrection: Characterizing Collective Action Using Mobile Device Data

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