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  • 11 - The #BlackLivesMatter Movement and Black Public Opinion

  • from Part II
  • Edited by Ewa Atanassow, Bard College, Berlin, Thomas Bartscherer, Bard College, New York, David A. Bateman, Cornell University, New York
  • Book:
    When the People Rule
    Published online:
    23 November 2023
    Print publication:
    09 November 2023, pp 204-217
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    Hundreds of grassroots protests have taken place across the United States under the banner of #BlackLivesMatter (BLM) movement since 2013. These protests were frequently animated by populist rhetoric that questioned both the performance of elected officials, chided the middle class for leaving the poor behind, and rejected the “respectability politics” that defined earlier movements for racial justice. In short, the core activists of the BLM movement are attempting to invent a new fiction of African American peoplehood that “centers the most marginal” members of the community. This chapter examines the extent to which the rise of the BLM movement has generated fissures in African American public opinion. The main finding is that public opinion on the effectiveness of the BLM movement is segmented by age, gender, and income.