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Historical Context

In order to understand the cultural and historical context of #BlackLivesMatter, one must study it in terms of critical race theory. Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness sheds light on the legal and historical processes that created the conditions in which police officers can get away with targeting black people, such as Michael Brown and Eric Garner. She explains that when Ronald Reagan started the War on Drugs in 1982, he also “made good on his promise to crack down on the racially defined ‘others’- the undeserving” (49). She goes on to argue that the War on Drugs created “the new racial equilibrium” in which young black men “may be just as likely to suffer discrimination in employment, housing, public benefits, and jury service as a black man in the Jim Crow era” (180-181). This is significant because the War on Drugs created an underclass of black men who are unfairly targeted, criminalized, and denied many of their rights. Understanding Alexander’s argument is central to analyzing the grief and frustration that produced #BlackLivesMatter. In the midst of the systematic degradation of black lives, #BlackLivesMatter is united as a text and as a movement through its assertion that black lives are valued, despite systemic racism. By studying Michelle Alexander, it becomes clear that these killings were not isolated incidents. #BlackLivesMatter is a reaction to the systematic criminalization of black people, and it must be studied as such.


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