Epilogue

2021 ◽  
pp. 165-168
Author(s):  
Joshua M. Scacco ◽  
Kevin Coe
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Lifestyle Changes ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Public Figures

This chapter updates several of the key themes addressed in the book by considering the events of 2020, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the presidential election. We discuss how the three contexts central to the ubiquitous presidency—accessibility, personalization, and pluralism—shaped responses to these events. Accessibility was present in President Trump’s frantic communication efforts during the pandemic, as well as in the efforts of other public figures. Personalization was present in the messaging and lifestyle changes necessitated by the pandemic. Pluralism was present in responses to systemic racism and police violence called out by the Black Lives Matter movement.

Protesting During a Pandemic: Narratives on Risk Taking and Motivation to Participating in the 2020 March on Washington

2021 ◽  
pp. 001112872199933
Author(s):  
Jennifer Cobbina ◽  
Ashleigh LaCourse ◽  
Erika J. Brooke ◽  
Soma Chaudhuri
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Social Position ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Media ◽  
March On Washington

The study elucidates the interplay of COVID-19 and the wave of Black Lives Matter protests to assess motivation and risk taking for protest participation. We draw on protesters’ accounts to examine how police violence influenced the participants decision making to participate in the 2020 March on Washington during a pandemic that exacerbated the risks already in place from protesting the police. We found that protesters’ social position and commitment to the cause provided motivations, along with a zeal to do more especially among White protesters. For Black participants, the images in the media resonated with their own experiences of structural racism from police.

A Macromarketing Call to Action—Because Black Lives Matter!

2020 ◽  
pp. 027614672098171
Author(s):  
June N.P. Francis
Keyword(s):  
Transformative Change ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Call To Action ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Marketing Systems

This essay poses the question do Black Lives Matter to marketing? Putting the spotlight on research in marketing reveals the multiple ways in which the field has neglected a most pressing issue of our time—structural and systemic anti-Black racism. The global rallying cry in the Black Lives Matter protests alerts us to the urgency for transformative change in all spheres including the marketing academy. Macromarketing is particularly poised to lead this change given the commitment to justice in marketing systems and concerns with the bilateral impact of marketing on society. This essay issues a call to action to re-historize the role of transatlantic slavery, for researchers to be reflective in addressing systemic racism, and for the academy to adopt anti-racist strategies to propel this scholarship from the periphery of marketing thought to its core.

Goldwater After Trump

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 651-661
Author(s):  
Jacob M. Appel ◽  
Akaela Michels-Gualtieri
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
Public Figures ◽  
American Psychiatry ◽  
Hand Evaluation ◽  
American Psychiatry Association ◽  
Presidential Election Campaign ◽  
Scale Challenges

AbstractThe “Goldwater rule,” a policy adopted by the American Psychiatry Association (APA) in 1973, prohibits organization members from diagnosing or offering professional opinions regarding the mental health of public figures without both first-hand evaluation and authorization. Initially developed in response to a controversial survey of APA members during the 1964 Presidential election campaign, the ethics rule faced few large scale challenges until the election of Donald Trump in 2016. Since that time, a significant number of psychiatrists have either violated or criticized the rule openly. This paper argues that whatever the initial merits of the rule, the prohibition has since been rendered obsolete by the combined lack of professional consensus supporting the policy, absence of a meaningful enforcement mechanism, and the credible statements of non-APA members in the mental health professions regarding public figures.

Crisis Counseling for Black Lives Matter Protests

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 198-211
Author(s):  
Darius A. Green ◽  
Brittany A. Williams ◽  
Kyulee Park
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Black Communities ◽  
Counseling Competencies ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Crisis Counseling ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Public Demonstration

The resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement in response to the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other Black individuals during the summer of 2020 was accompanied by widespread public demonstration and protest. Despite the peaceful nature of most demonstrations, data indicate that protesters experienced police violence at a disproportionate rate compared to demonstrations associated with other movements. Due to the crisis and unrest that undue police violence toward Black communities can cause, it is imperative that counselors identify ways to support communities in their collective acts toward resistance and liberation. This article reviews how counselors can integrate the Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies and the American Counseling Association’s Advocacy Competencies into crisis counseling responses that support protesters of the Black Lives Matter movement.

scholarly journals The Social Psychology of the Black Lives Matter Meme and Movement

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 543-547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Wayne Leach ◽  
Aerielle M. Allen
Keyword(s):  
Social Psychology ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Racial Bias ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dual Pathway

Since the 2012 killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a string of publicized police killings of unarmed Black men and women has brought sustained attention to the issue of racial bias in the United States. Recent Department of Justice investigations and an expanding set of social science research have added to the empirical evidence that these publicized incidents are emblematic of systemic racism in the application of the law. The Black Lives Matter meme and movement are prominent responses to racism that have animated intense interest and support, especially among African Americans. We summarize recent social science research on Black Lives Matter. As a first step toward understanding the social psychology of the meme and the movement, we apply the dynamic dual-pathway model of protest to Black Lives Matter. Examinations of the dynamics of real-world movements such as Black Lives Matter may enrich psychology conceptually, methodologically, and practically.

5. On the present and future of American poetry

2021 ◽  
pp. 95-108
Author(s):  
David Caplan
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American History ◽  
American Poetry ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Perceived Need ◽  
Black Lives Matter

“On the present and future of American poetry” argues that the contemporary poets who follow Robert Lowell’s model of blending public and private history often turn against the particular hierarchies that made the Lowell name seem “significant, illustrative, American, etc.” Instead, contemporary poets have taken up the challenge of presenting a new account of American history and culture. They introduce a new set of important names of people and places. The poets of the Black Lives Matter movement, for instance, elegize African American victims of police violence. At the same time, their poems add new variations of the two characteristics of American: the perceived need for distinctiveness and its transnationalism.

Black Female Education Leaders and Intersectionality

2021 ◽  
pp. 101-123
Author(s):  
Alyncia M. Bowen ◽  
Shaquanah Robinson ◽  
Jim Lane
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
Black Female ◽  
Female Education ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Education Leaders ◽  
Gender Power ◽  
Cultural Movement

The pandemic has operated within a cultural movement opposing systemic racism. Redux of Black Lives Matter was spurred by the killings of George Floyd, Ahmad Aubrey, Rashard Brooks, Breonna Taylor, and others, and resulted in prolonged protests throughout the country. This caustic backdrop has created unique challenges for female Black educational leaders. Thus, they are compelled to navigate their already challenging duties among the intersections of leadership, race, gender, power, and social justice. Black female education leaders are challenged to courageously lead during an unprecedented era of disruption.

From Now to Next

2021 ◽  
pp. 298-326
Author(s):  
Nicholas Freudenberg
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Social Activism ◽  
Business Leaders ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Property ◽  
Gender Divisions ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Deaths Of Despair

The failure of political and business leaders to protect people against Covid-19 and its economic crisis, police violence and systemic racism, deaths of despair, climate change, and failing democracy has pushed millions into activism. This chapter suggests six broad goals that could unify the now often disparate movements seeking a better world: grow the public sector, strengthen democracy, confront the burdens that systemic racism and sexism impose, transform the conversation on taxes and regulation, focus on cities, and make science and technology public property. It also proposes practical strategies for building a more effective movement. These include making it easy to connect personal and social activism; talking about race, class and gender divisions in ways that highlight their role in weakening movements; and challenging capitalist ideas. Every generation has faced similar daunting challenges. Always some have found ways to organize for a safer future for humanity. Now it is our turn.

The White Right: A Gendered Look at the Links Between “Victim” Ideology and Anti-Black Lives Matter Sentiments in the Era of Trump

2021 ◽  
pp. 089692052110203
Author(s):  
Deena A Isom ◽  
Hunter M Boehme ◽  
Deanna Cann ◽  
Amber Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Election ◽  
Gender Norms ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
White Men ◽  
White Americans ◽  
Normative Beliefs ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Black Lives Matter

Employing a racialized gendered lens, we explore the perceptions of status threat and victimhood among a sample of White Americans following the 2016 presidential election. Specifically, we draw upon such theoretical and empirical work to frame our analyses of the associations between perceptions of a white “victim” ideology and anti-Black Lives Matter (BLM) sentiments and how such associations may be conditioned by support for Trump and holding patriarchal gender normative beliefs. We propose that the BLM movement may be perceived as a “threat” to many White Americans. Furthermore, we believe Whites’ anti-BLM sentiments will be enhanced by support for Trump, given his racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, and oppressive tendencies. Moreover, we believe that these associations will differ based on gender and beliefs in patriarchal gender norms, as White men and women are likely to feel status threat in varied ways. Mix support for our propositions and complex gendered differences are revealed. Implications are discussed.

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