The Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter (Rhetoric, Race, and Religion)

Edgar, Amanda Nell; Johnson, Andre E.

ISBN 10: 1498572057 / ISBN 13: 9781498572057

Published by Lexington Books, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter (Rhetoric, Race, and Religion)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498572057
• ISBN 13: 9781498572057
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In The Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter, Amanda Nell Edgar and Andre E. Johnson examine the surprisingly complex relationship between Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter 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 perspectives of ordinary participants. The Struggle over Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter highlights the motivations for investing in social movements and countermovements to show how history, both remembered and misremembered, bubbles beneath the surface of online social justice campaigns. Through participation in these contemporary movements, online 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.

About the Author

Amanda Nell Edgar is assistant professor of communication at the University of Memphis.

Andre E. Johnson is assistant professor of communication at the University of Memphis.