Book contents
- Breaching the Civil Order
- Breaching the Civil Order
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Wedging Open Established Civil Spheres
- 2 Radical Protest on a University Campus
- 3 Antiracism Movements and the US Civil Sphere
- 4 The Civil Sphere and Its Variants in Light of the Arab Revolutions and Jihadism in Europe
- 5 Restaging a Vital Center within Radicalized Civil Societies
- 6 Anti-immigrant Movements and the Self-Poisoning of the Civil Sphere
- 7 The Civil Sphere and Revolutionary Violence
- 8 “We All Came Together That Day”
- 9 Disobedience in Civil Regeneration
- Commentary
- Conclusion
- Index
- References
3 - Antiracism Movements and the US Civil Sphere
The Case of Black Lives Matter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 November 2019
Book contents
- Breaching the Civil Order
- Breaching the Civil Order
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Figures
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 Wedging Open Established Civil Spheres
- 2 Radical Protest on a University Campus
- 3 Antiracism Movements and the US Civil Sphere
- 4 The Civil Sphere and Its Variants in Light of the Arab Revolutions and Jihadism in Europe
- 5 Restaging a Vital Center within Radicalized Civil Societies
- 6 Anti-immigrant Movements and the Self-Poisoning of the Civil Sphere
- 7 The Civil Sphere and Revolutionary Violence
- 8 “We All Came Together That Day”
- 9 Disobedience in Civil Regeneration
- Commentary
- Conclusion
- Index
- References
Summary
In the wake of Trayvon Martin (February 26, 2012), Eric Garner (July 17, 2014), Michael Brown (August 09, 2014), and the many other black men and women killed by law enforcement,1 the United States saw arise a wave of contentious, radical protests around racism and police/state violence. Beginning with George Zimmerman’s killing of Trayvon Martin and his subsequent acquittal, it was largely in the wake of Ferguson, Missouri, where police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed Michael Brown, an eighteen-year-old, unarmed black teenager, that growing discontent turned into street protests. Discontent and anger about racism and police brutality were exacerbated by subsequent acts of police violence (e.g., Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina; Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland; Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) and further compounded by the acquittals of Michael Brown’s killer Darren Wilson and Eric Garner’s killer Daniel Pantaleo. The nonindictment of Pantaleo on December 03, 2014, was particularly jarring given the video footage. It was one of the only times conservatives on social media found some agreement with the growing black solidarity movement.
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