Abstract
In historic protests sparked by the wrongful deaths of US civilians, demonstrators have taken to the streets in record numbers demanding justice and an end to institutionalized racism. US media coverage of this movement has frequently utilized the racial ethnonym Black as opposed to African(-)American. As this note discusses, this choice in nomenclature may not only be due to the increasing prominence of the Black Lives Matter Movement. It may also be indicative of earlier, large-scale shifts in autonymy. This note presents some of the demographic, linguistic, and sociopolitical factors that may well have played a role in the rising use of Black as both an ethnoracial and political identifier.
Highlights
In historic protests sparked by the wrongful deaths of US civilians, demonstrators have taken to the streets in record numbers demanding justice and an end to institutionalized racism
On the official incident report written by the Louisville Metro Police Department (LMPD), the responding officers indicated that Ms Taylor had received no injuries during the operation
According to the autopsy conducted by New York City’s Chief Medical Examiner, Dr Michael Baden, the cause of Mr Floyd’s death was asphyxiation from sustained compression of the neck and back which resulted in a lethal interruption of blood and oxygen flow (Reyes, Hughes, and Emmert 2020)
Summary
American Plague: Racism, our untreated pre-existing condition, is killing both black people and the nation itself. Two Black Trans Women Were Killed in the U.S in the Past Week as Trump Revokes Discrimination Protections for Trans People. Former Atlanta police chief walked with protestors to Demand Change. She resigned after an officer fatally shot a black man (CONTINUED)
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