Empathy and Racial Justice: Redefining Impartiality in Response to Social Movements

Altruistic concern: how racial ideologies explain racial differences in concerns for Black victims of crime and the police

“…It appears, for instance, that a racial empathy gap exists between White and Black Americans in support for punitive approaches to crime (Unnever & Cullen, 2009). Similarly, White American's unempathetic responses to racial injustices may also structure CrimRxiv Altruistic concern: how racial ideologies explain racial di erences in concerns for Black victims of crime and the police 6 their feeling towards social movements like Black Lives Matter (Drakulich et al, 2021;Luttrell, 2019;Vani et al, 2023), whether they believe the violence perpetrated by the police against Black Americans is justified , and whether they have empathy for those Black victims (J. Johnson & Lecci, 2020).…”

The Western Indian Ocean African Diaspora and #BlackLivesMatter: Situating Siddi, Sheedi, and Ceylon African Struggles and Politics

“…Extensive literature on #BlackLivesMatter explores a range of topics including the nuanced social position of heterogeneous Black lives (Ransby, 2018) the role of music in protest and as intervention (Orejuela et al, 2018), debates vis-à-vis “All Lives Matter” (Edgar & Johnson, 2018; West et al, 2021), the movement’s impact on US Black politics (Hooker, 2016; Taylor, 2016), the movement’s impact on law enforcement (Weissinger & Mack, 2018), respectability politics within #BlackLivesMatter (Bunyasi & Smith, 2019), sports (Hylton, 2020), the role of women in the movement (Watters, 2017), White communities and the movement (Luttrell, 2019), #BlackLivesMatter in academia (Bell et al, 2021), Black Lives Matter in schools (Jones & Hagopian, 2020), and the significance of the movement in health promotion (Leitch et al, 2021), among others.…”