#SayHerName: a case study of intersectional social media activism

Brown, Melissa; Ray, Rashawn; Summers, Ed; Fraistat, Neil

doi:10.1080/01419870.2017.1334934

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“…In Black churches in Nova Scotia, women play central roles in fulfilling the "social, economic, and spiritual needs of Black communities, while also fighting for change" (Brigham and Parris 2016: 74). This has extended beyond the church, Black women have led and participated in social movements (Bailey et al 2013;Brigham and Parris 2016;Brown et al 2017;Hamilton 1998). In Digby, this kind of extension of community mothering and activism is clear in the education and the active protection of Black youth.…”

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“…Much less attention has focused on Black women, girls, and transgender women who are also victims of state violence (Smith 2016). The #SayHerName movement is using a combination of social media activism, political education, and protests to bring awareness to the names and stories of Black women and girls who have been victims of police violence, 3 with the goal of addressing the erasure of Black women form the narrative of police violence (African American Policy Forum 2015; 2019; Brown et al 2017). The findings of the present study address the absence of Black women's experiences within the dominant narrative, even within the narrative of anti-racism.…”

Section: Experiences Of Policing Social Activism and Mothering Amonmentioning

confidence: 99%

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We’ll Deal with it Later: African Nova Scotian Women’s Perceptions and Experiences of the Police

Bundy

2019

Can. J. Soc.

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This case study explores the experiences of African Nova Scotian women in relation to the police. Three semi-structured interviews were conducted with Black women living in a rural Nova Scotian community with a well-documented history of confrontations between the police and the Black community. Interviews explored their experiences with the police, their community’s experiences with the police, and their relationship with the police. My analysis revealed that participants did not trust the police, felt targeted by the police, and did not feel protected by the police. Their perceptions of the police were shaped by their own interactions with the police – often as Black mothers – and the experiences of the Black men in their lives in rural Nova Scotia. Some had engaged in active resistance and protection of their community. This article explores how anti-Blackness affects Black women directly and indirectly, contributing to the existing scholarship about over-policing of Black communities.

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Section: Experiences Of Policing Social Activism and Mothering Amonmentioning

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We’ll Deal with it Later: African Nova Scotian Women’s Perceptions and Experiences of the Police

Bundy

2019

Can. J. Soc.

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“…On November 24, 2014, a grand jury decided not to pursue charges against Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown. That night until the following day resulted in the most concurrent protests in U.S. history and birthed what most people know as the Black Lives Matter movement (Brown et al 2017; Ray, Brown, et al 2017). Wilson resigned shortly after the grand jury decision and lived off the $500,000 in donations he received.…”

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Restructuring Civilian Payouts for Police Misconduct

Ray

2020

Sociological Forum

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A person is killed by police every 20 hours in the United States. Office‐involved killings have increased about 25% in the past 20 years despite violent crime decreasing. Even more troubling, Blacks are 3.5 times more likely than Whites to be killed by police even when they are not attacking or when they do not have a weapon. Civilian payouts for police misconduct cost local jurisdictions millions of dollars when taxpayer money could be spent in ways that help to close the achievement gap and create jobs. Policy solutions to close this racial gap and improve police‐civilian relations have centered mostly on the implementation of body‐worn cameras and implicit bias trainings. Although beneficial, I argue these policy solutions fall short because they do not address the lack of accountability that police departments have to the communities they serve. In this article, I recommend a restructuring of civilian payouts for police misconduct from taxpayer money to police department insurances. This restructuring will improve police‐civilian relations as well as reduce justifiable homicides and officer‐involved shootings by increasing the accountability that police departments have to the communities they serve.

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“…Ethnoracial micromobilization includes the deployment and construction of ethnoracial identities by individuals within movements. For example, Black Lives Matter social media activism has been a ripe area of research for scholars of race thus far (Brown, Ray, Summers, & Fraistat, ; Ince, Rojas, & Davis, ; Ray, Brown, Fraistat, & Summers, ). Ray et al () use Twitter hashtags in the Death of Michael Brown archive to understand the development of collective action frames or collective identities via social media.…”

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Analyzing ethnoracial mobilization

Reyes

Ragon

2018

Sociology Compass

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This article examines scholarship about ethnoracial mobilization written by sociologists within the subfields of social movements and race and racism. We situate our synthesis within critiques put forward by other scholars about the treatment of ethnoracial movements within the social movement subfield. Using these critiques as launching points, we find two broad patterns in the literature: (a) a focus on ethnoracial social movements that decenters race, at times treating it as an independent variable and (b) a focus on mobilizations for racial equity that treats race as a dynamic and constructed process. Within the latter focus, we note research that investigates ethnoracial mobilization at the macro‐, meso‐, and micro‐levels. We call for more research on movements that specifically consider the mobilization and construction of ethnoracial identities. In doing so, we provide a conceptual map of the field and make suggestions for how social movement scholars employing distinct theoretical foci can engage in ethnoracial analysis. Finally, we hypothesize why there might be a dearth of research within the social movement subfield that engages in critical analysis of ethnoracial dynamics of social movements.

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#SayHerName: a case study of intersectional social media activism

Cited by 209 publications

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We’ll Deal with it Later: African Nova Scotian Women’s Perceptions and Experiences of the Police

We’ll Deal with it Later: African Nova Scotian Women’s Perceptions and Experiences of the Police

Restructuring Civilian Payouts for Police Misconduct

Analyzing ethnoracial mobilization

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