Open AccessBLACK LIVES MATTER IN THE UNITED STATES
Author(s) -
Alifianita Amalia,
Luthfiyah Alifah Ridwan,
Rachel Krisna Ayu,
Shuwen Lian
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
sociae polites
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2620-4975
pISSN - 1410-3745
DOI - 10.33541/sp.v21i3.2416
Subject(s) - movement (music) , social movement , sociology , social media , civil rights , shot (pellet) , action (physics) , political science , media studies , history , gender studies , law , criminology , art , aesthetics , politics , chemistry , physics , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics
This paper examines affiliation with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement using the constructivism theory. The main finding presented in the paper is that the discrimination experienced by African Americans in the United States in the past two decades. The BLM movement's history was a response to the death of two black teenagers, Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, who were both unarmed and shot and killed. The most famous one happened this year, the death of George Floyd for the brutal police action by pressing the victim's neck with his leg until Floyd died. The second key finding is that BLM organizations generated more to frame the movement as a struggle for individual rights. Still, many youths assume that this movement is just a trend on social media. Finally, social media's influence where the spread of news, content, videos is the important point of the black lives matter movement in the US.