National nostalgia and prostalgia predict support toward the Black Lives Matter movement and creating a new normal following the pandemic

The Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests and the COVID-19 pandemic are introducing cultural change in the United States. Past research demonstrates that cultural change can be perceived as threatening when compared to cultural stability. Thus, the change brought upon by the BLM protests and the COVID-19 pandemic may be reducing support for the BLM movement and reducing support for creating a new normal after the pandemic (i.e., creating new social norms). Based on the Cultural Inertia Model, we predicted that highlighting the BLM protests and the COVID-19 pandemic as agents of change would hinder support for each agent of change. We also hypothesized that psychological anchors (i.e., national nostalgia) and psychological propellers (i.e., national prostalgia) would serve as individual difference measures that hinder or facilitate support toward the BLM movement and creating a new normal following the pandemic. Our findings demonstrated that highlighting the BLM protests and the pandemic as agents of change did not cause differences in support for the BLM movement or creating a new normal following the pandemic. However, national nostalgia and prostalgia served as individual difference measures that respectively reduced and facilitated support for the BLM movement and the creation of new social norms following the pandemic.

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The New Normal? Addressing Gun Violence in America

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e528162015-001 ◽

2015 ◽

Keyword(s):

Gun Violence ◽

New Normal

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Adjusting to the New Normal: Learning to Be a Survivor

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e717202007-001 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Eva Guralnick

Keyword(s):

New Normal

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Global new course versus the new normal: The transition to sustainable and inclusive economy? (IV seminar of Eurasian Economic Commission, Interstate Bank and UNCTAD, Moscow, November 2017)

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2018-2-156-160 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 156-160

Author(s):

Editorial Article

Keyword(s):

New Normal ◽

Economic Commission

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Dismantling White Privilege: The Black Lives Matter Movement and Environmental Justice in Canada

Kalfou A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies ◽

10.15367/kf.v5i2.215 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Cheryl Teelucksingh

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Critical Race Theory ◽

Environmental Justice ◽

White Supremacy ◽

Jim Crow ◽

The United States ◽

Conceptual Tool ◽

Public Monuments ◽

Black Lives Matter ◽

Jim Crow Era

On August 12, 2017, in Charlottesville, Virginia, alt-right/White supremacy groups and Black Lives Matter (BLM) supporters came face-to-face regarding what to do about public monuments that celebrate key figures from slavery and the Jim Crow era. White supremacists and White nationalists did not hide their racist ideologies as they demanded that their privileged place in history not be erased. The BLM movement, which challenges state-sanctioned anti-Black racism, was ready to confront themes of White discontent and reverse racism, critiques of political correctness, and the assumption that racialized people should know their place and be content to be the subordinate other.It is easy to frame the events in Charlottesville as indicative of US-specific race problems. However, a sense that White spaces should prevail and an ongoing history of anti-Black racism are not unique to the United States. The rise of Canadian activism under the BLM banner also signals a movement to change Canadian forms of institutional racism in policing, education, and the labor market. This article responds to perceptions that the BLM movement has given insufficient attention to environmental concerns (Pellow 2016; Halpern 2017). Drawing on critical race theory as a conceptual tool, this article focuses on the Canadian context as part of the author’s argument in favor of greater collaboration between BLM and the environmental justice (EJ) movement in Canada. This article also engages with the common stereotype that Blacks in Canada have it better than Blacks in the United States.

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Beyond Black Lives Matter

Kalfou A Journal of Comparative and Relational Ethnic Studies ◽

10.15367/kf.v2i2.71 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Robin D. G. Kelley

Keyword(s):

The State ◽

Slippery Slope ◽

White People ◽

Dominant Class ◽

Black Lives Matter

Few activists who march behind the banner of Black Lives Matter conceive of their struggle as an appeal to white people for recognition, but until recently the movement’s objective echoed this implicit line of reasoning: if the dominant class, and/or the state, could just recognize that our lives matter, we would be treated differently. Such assumptions can easily lead us down a slippery slope of reducing five centuries of racism, slavery, and colonialism to a fixed ideology of anti-Blackness intrinsic to the European mind, or worse, mistaking a dynamic racial regime for negligence, ignorance, or “blindness” to our humanity, a humanity that requires a visible struggle to be seen. They can lead, that is to say, to a politics in which recognition takes precedence over revolution and reconstruction.

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