[Air-L] AllLivesMatter and BlueLivesMatter Material

[Chris Julien]

Sounds like an interesting paper! Perhaps this is too tangential or
unrelated to your conceptual/theoretical frame, but it seems to me that the
discourse of AllLivesMatter and BlueLivesMatter groups aligns with Matthew
Hughey's work on white identity construction, as well as Bonilla-Silva's
four frames of color-blind racism, one of which is abstract liberalism: the
use of liberal ideals to invoke equality in the abstract while ignoring
historical disparities between dominant and minority peoples. So, these
works aren't specifically about the two groups in question, but I think
they powerfully light-up their operative ideologies.

Hughey, Matthew W. 2010. “The (dis)similarities of white racial identities:
the conceptual framework of ‘hegemonic whiteness.’” Ethnic and Racial
Studies 33(8):1289-1309.

Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. 2002. “The Linguistics of Color-Blind Racism: How
to Talk Nasty about Blacks without Sounding ‘Racist.’” Critical Sociology
28(1-2):41-64.

Apologies is this isn't pertinent to the interests driving your research.

Cheers,
Chris

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Chris Julien, MA in Sociology
Greensboro, NC, USA
www.chrisjulien.com

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:06 AM, Deen Freelon <dfreelon at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is the best empirical study I've seen on #Alllivesmatter to date:
> https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06820
>
> Best, /DEEN
>
>
> On 5/17/2017 10:02 AM, Ostertag, Stephen F wrote:
>
>> Hello AoIR listservers,
>>
>>
>> I'm working on a paper that talks about police violence against black men
>> and women in the U.S. and the emergence of radical protests within the
>> context of the U.S. Civil Sphere. An important part of this was the
>> creation of BlackLivesMatter as a collective representation and mobilizing
>> mechanisms, but also its reactionary groups of AllLivesMatter and
>> BlueLivesMatter. I have a good amount of literature on BlackLivesMatter,
>> but was wondering if anyone could suggest material on AllLivesMatter and/or
>> BlueLivesMatter.
>>
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>>
>> Stephen Ostertag
>>
>>
>> Stephen F. Ostertag, Ph.D.
>> Assistant Professor of Sociology
>> Director, Social Policy and Practice Coordinate Major
>> Department of Sociology
>> Tulane University
>> New Orleans, LA 70118
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