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Subject(s)

• African Americans—Social conditions—21st century [Browse]
• Black lives matter movement [Browse]
• Mass media and race relations—United States [Browse]
• Social movements—United States—21st century [Browse]

Series

• Cambridge elements. Elements in contentious politics [More in this series]
• Cambridge elements. Elements in contentious politics, 2633-3570 [More in this series]

Summary note

Scholars have long recognized that interpersonal networks play a role in mobilizing social movements. Yet, many questions remain. This Element addresses these questions by theorizing about three dimensions of ties: emotionally strong or weak, movement insider or outsider, and ingroup or cross-cleavage. The survey data on the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests show that weak and cross-cleavage ties among outsiders enabled the movement to evolve from a small provocation into a massive national mobilization. In particular, the authors find that Black people mobilized one another through social media and spurred their non-Black friends to protest by sharing their personal encounters with racism. These results depart from the established literature regarding the civil rights movement that emphasizes strong, movement-internal, and racially homogenous ties. The networks that mobilize appear to have changed in the social media era. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

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ISBN

9781009415842 (ebook)

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