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How the news media uses specific rhetoric tools to discipline and take power away from the Black Lives Matter movement as a way to delegitimise their movement and issues. The news media compares Black Lives Matter to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s to demarcate the correct way to protest.
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Why is it important?
Racism is a problem not just in the US with the Black Lives Matter movement, but throughout the world. This article unpacks how the news media employs different rhetorical tools to delegitimise a movement that is trying to speak truth to power and to better the lives of Black Americans.
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This page is a summary of: Disciplining Black activism: post-racial rhetoric, public memory and decorum in news media framing of the Black Lives Matter movement, Continuum, October 2018, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2018.1525920.
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