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- Title
The False Promise of Racial Self-Affirmation in the 21<sup>St</sup>-Century United States.
- Authors
Peraza, Steve
- Abstract
The article focuses on activist Alicia Garza created the hashtag "#blacklivesmatter" on the social media platform Twitter. It mentions continued to suffer extrajudicial killings at the hands of white supremacists and law enforcement agents of states that seemed to devalue black lives. It also mentions "Black Lives Matter" became a foil for critics of black American activists as well as the proponents of deracialized humanitarianism and interpellated the kaleidoscopic racial identities.
- Subjects
BLACK Lives Matter movement; EXTRAJUDICIAL executions; HUMANITARIANISM; RACE identity; LAW enforcement
- Publication
Afro-Americans in New York Life & History, 2022, Vol 43, Issue 2, p59
- ISSN
0364-2437
- Publication type
Article