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While much focus has been placed on Black Lives Matter activism in response to police and civilian murders of Black people, authors argue that Black activism in this era addresses a broad range of issues both on the street and inside institutions and communities.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: This Era of Black Activism (Edith Joachimpillai and Mary Marcel)
Part 1: Black Activism
1. #BlackLivesMatter: Innovative Black Resistance (Jozie Nummi, Carly Jennings and Joe Feagin)
2. Dream Defenders: The First Ten Years and the Transition to This Era of Black Activism (Mary Marcel)
3. Protecting Whom? Serving What?: Police Accountability in Ferguson Protests in 2014 (Jozie Nummi and Amorette T. Young)
4. The Camera as "Moral Agent" and Testimonial for Black Reparative Justice (Joyce Hope Scott)
5. Community and Communal Coping: The Role of Social Media as a Resource
for Black Activism and Black Refuge (David Stamps)
6. From Protests to Pride and Back Again: A Look at New York Pride's Origins and the Modern BIPOC Queer Movement to Reclaim It (Moussa Hassoun)
7. Challenging "Taken-for-Granted" Assumptions in Academia: Scholarship as Activism (Anne Rawls)
8. The Black Professor (Utz McKnight and Greg Austin)
Part 2: The Effects of Black Activism on Institutions
9. An Investigation of Fortune 100 Companies' Responses to the 2020 BLM Movement (Ziyuan Zhou)
10. Black Activism from the Ivory Tower: Cultural Betrayal, Sexual Abuse, and Healing for Black Women and Girls (Jennifer M. Gómez)
11. Racism, Poverty and Health Oh My! The Black Voice: Leading in Unprecedented Times (Melissa Hector)
12. From Black Dehumanization to Repair: The Long Road Through Death, Poverty, Protests and Policy to Rebuild the Social Contract (Edith Joachimpillai)
Appendix: Additional Bibliographic Resources by Mary Marcel
A. Anti-Black Environmental Racism and Environmental Justice Activism
B. Black Athlete Activism
C. Black Church Activism
Contributor Biographies
About the author
Edited by Mary Marcel and Edith Joachimpillai - Contributions by Mary Marcel; Edith Joachimpillai; Greg Austin; Joe Feagin; Jennifer M. Gómez; Moussa Hassoun; Melissa Hector; Carly Jennings; Utz McKnight; Jozie Nummi; Anne Warfield Rawls; Joyce Hope Scott
Summary
While much focus has been placed on Black Lives Matter activism in response to police and civilian murders of Black people, authors argue that Black activism in this era addresses a broad range of issues both on the street and inside institutions and communities.
