We Learned Violence From You

Discursive Pacification and Framing Contests During the Minneapolis Uprising

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ID6304308
AuthorsAnna Dalcortivo, Alyssa Oursler
Year2021
Volume26
Issue4
Pages457-474
Publication date2021-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMobilization An International Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1086-671X • E-ISSN: 1938-1514
PublisherMobilization Journal (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.17813/1086-671x-26-4-457
OpenAlexW4200571161
LanguageEN
Citations received6

Following the murder of George Floyd, Minneapolis became the epicenter of the largest movement in US history. Local Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, dubbed the Minneapolis Uprising, were met by the largest civil police deployment in state history. In the week following George Floyd’s murder, state and local officials convened ten press conferences totaling over 400 minutes of discourse. We use these press conferences, in conjunction with an ethnography of protests, to analyze how state officials counterframed Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd. Building on critical race theory, we consider how the state maneuvered to pacify Black Lives Matter protesters and maintain racial oppression and repression. Minneapolis state officials constructed their counterframe through the (re)ordering of disorder, boundary activation, co-optation, and erasure

Criminology · Ethnography · Framing (construction · George (robot · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Racism · Social movement · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Studies · History · Law · Rhetoric and Communication Studies

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