Black Lives Matter

The Emotional and Racial Dynamics of the George Floyd Protest Graffiti

Bibliographic Data

ID22010342
AuthorsMary Louisa Cappelli (0000-0002-0419-9411, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume10
Issue09
Pages323-347
Publication date2020-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAdvances in Applied Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2165-4328 • E-ISSN: 2165-4336
PublisherScientific Research Publishing, Inc. (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4236/aasoci.2020.109020
OpenAlexW3085011563
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited35

Political Protest Graffiti is an increasingly visible form of rhetoric that provides a democratizing space to enable its disenfranchised peoples to articulate their own narratives. As a form of visual activism, the George Floyd Protest Graffiti acts to historically document the tragic sentiment of the collective protest demonstration and testify to political and racial struggles in America. In this essay, I examine the George Floyd Protest Graffiti as a discursive site to analyze how emotions come into play in its production. With a rhetorical power to communicate ideas and influence public debate, I contend that the Floyd cultural graffiti production functions as a system of socio-cultural negotiations and a political call to arms to collapse structural racism in America

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Graffiti · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Racism · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Gender Studies · History · Law · Public Spaces through Art

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