The Supply of Demands
What Black Lives Matter Demanded in 2020
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24217869 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arica Schuett (0000-0002-8862-6934, University of Notre Dame) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Pages | 1-17 |
| Publication date | 2026-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Race Ethnicity and Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2056-6085 • E-ISSN: 2056-6085 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/rep.2026.10099 |
| OpenAlex | W7215116366 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 43 |
Despite the significant role social media played in mobilizing Black Lives Matter supporters, political science research on this topic focuses on the years before the massive mobilizations in 2020. This paper draws on a novel dataset of BLM chapters’ tweets during the George Floyd protests to examine the language activists used to facilitate protests during the movement’s peak public support. Despite having more experience mobilizing followers, older chapters were less likely to encourage followers to pursue change through conventional electoral politics even in the midst of a presidential election year. Instead, older chapters were more likely to share educational resources or media that cultivated a collective identity among supporters and followers.
2020 presidential election · black lives matter · Collective identity · Electoral politics · George Floyd protests · protest demands · social media mobilization · teaching materials · Race, History, and American Society · Social Media and Politics · Social Movements and Cultural Identity
Organizational Learning
Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State
Moving Politics
Beyond the Hashtags
From the Blackhand Side
The Digital Architectures of Social Media
The Next Civil Rights Movement?
Black Lives Matter in Historical Perspective
The Day Data Transparency Died
Conceptual origins, current problems, future direction
How Organizations Develop Activists
Racism Without Racists
What Kind of Movement is Black Lives Matter? The View from Twitter
Do All Black Lives Matter Equally to Black People? Respectability Politics and the Limitations of Linked Fate
Collective action
Tweets and Doorknocks. Differentiation and Cooperation between Black Lives Matter and Community Organizing
Information, Community, and Action
The social media response to Black Lives Matter
Agenda Seeding
Niche Activism
Black lives matter and imagined futures of racial dynamics in the US
Tweeting a Social Movement
Black Lives Matter
Police Are Our Government
Ferguson is everywhere
The Consequences of Professionalization and Formalization in the Pro-Choice Movement
Leaderfulness from a Gramscian perspective
Protest as a Political Resource
Making All Black Lives Matter
Scaling Social Movements Through Social Media
Computational Grounded Theory
American Resistance
Ask a Feminist
Recruitment to High-Risk Activism
Resource Mobilization and Social Movements
Bending with the Wind
Ferguson and the death of Michael Brown on Twitter
Speech Acts
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