Black Lives Matter Assignment | Essay Help Services
4 peer reveiwed sources. 4 pages. MLA style with all work cited
Danielle Deese
Professor Chandler
English 1301-239
Annotated Bibliography
Dávila, María Teresa. “Discussing Racial Justice in Light of 2016: Black Lives Matter, a Trump Presidency, and the Continued Struggle for Justice.” Journal of Religious Ethics, vol. 45, no. 4, Dec. 2017, pp. 761–792. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1111/jore.12199.
Maria Teresa Davila is an Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Andover Newton Theological School who informs students and others on the extents of public and liberation theology, racism, immigration, Latinx ethics, and the ethics of the use of force. In this reference, Davila creates a discussion over already published books titled, “Rainbow Theology: Bridging Race, Sexuality, and Spirit” by Cheng, Patrick (2013); “Stand Your Ground: Black Bodies and the Justice of God” by Douglas Kelly Brown (2015); “Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation” by Jennifer Harvey (2014). In her discussion, she empathizes how the authors of the book all use the ethical and religious values that our nation seems to lack. She also gives background information about events that have occurred and what the responses of officers, community and governmental leaders such as Obama. Davila also elaborates on the unresponsive responses of the presidential candidates from September 2016, Trump and Hillary Clinton. She states how they responded and even when they did respond, no true intention was made to future the awareness of inequality, racism or political effort to great change. With this elaborated discussion, I will use the information the author provides to give examples in my future essay to give a better understand and reasoning on my stance concerning the BLM movement.
Heckman, James J. “The American Family in Black & White: A Post-Racial Strategy for Improving Skills to Promote Equality.” Daedalus, vol. 140, no. 2, 2011, pp. 70–89. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23047452. Accessed 8 May 2020.
James J. Heckman is a Fellow of the American Academy, director of the Economics Research Center. He also received the Sverige’s Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences. He is also a Senior Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and an author of a book. In this article, author, Heckman informs the reader about the necessary actions in order to prevent further damage in racial inequality. He states that research proves that a person’s social view being with the parental technique in parenting. Heckman also addresses the issue on why the continual racial inequality leads to a continuous circle if there are no measure of change or prevention. He believes that for change to be made, there must first be an
investment” in the lives of under-privileged children. I have chosen to use this in my paper because I will be giving personal reason on why I believe in this movement. I also will use the information as factual evidence on parenting and outcome.
Kramer, Rory, and Brianna Remster. “Stop, Frisk, and Assault? Racial Disparities in Police use of Force during Investigatory Stops.” Law & Society Review, vol. 52, no. 4, 2018, pp. 960.
Authors Rory Kramer and Brianna Remster are associate professors of sociology and criminology at the Villanova University. Kramer specializes in racial inequality, urban segregation, spatial analysis of neighborhood dynamics, and racial identity. Remster specializes in in the social consequences and inequalities in the criminal justice system. In their article, the authors discuss the direct inequality of the police enforcement and the correlation of police interaction between races including blacks. They then create a study to conclude whether there is, in fact a correlation, between the number of incarceration and arrests based on the suspects or victims’ race. Kramer and Remster found that nearly 61 thousand of racial disparities would decrease the amount of police use of force including lethal force. Because the authors use a measured and data form of research, including statistical facts, I will use this information in my paper to show factual evidence based on past research and up-to-date data as a measure of support for my thesis statement on the importance of Black Lives Matter.
Murray, Melissa. “Review | The Making of Black Lives Matter – and Making It More Inclusive.” The Washington Post, WP Company, 4 Oct. 2018, www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-making-of-black-lives-matter–and-making-it-more-inclusive/2018/10/04/2b3e1ef6-bb86-11e8-bdc0-90f81cc58c5d_story.html.
This Washington Post article is written by Melissa Murray, a Professor of Law at NYU in October of 2018 who states how protestors give back power to minorities, using one example of UNC students and protestors forcibly toppling a statue of Silent Sam while yelling “Black Lives Matter” repeatedly, which was symbolic of connecting the history of slavery and segregation to the present fight to eradicate state violence against People Of Color and racism completely. This article brings up the fact that although the BLM movement has grown very largely since it started, very few scholars and writers have sought to analyze and document the movement. One scholar who has though, is Barbara Ransby, author of “Making All Black Lives Matter: Reimagining Freedom In the 21st Centrury”. Ransby worked with and observed the movement for years and she credits black feminism as the “ideological bedrock” of the BLM movement. She believes the feminist roots connect it to other issues, such as reproductive justice, LGBT rights and police and prison abolition movements. I plan on using this source in my final paper to explain the dynamic of the movement and how they work that makes them so successful.
Rickford, Russell. “Black Lives Matter.” New Labor Forum (Sage Publications Inc.), vol. 25, no. 1, Winter 2016, pp. 34–42. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1177/1095796015620171.
Russel Rickford is an author of the book title We Are an African People: Black Power, Independent Education, and the Radical Imagination. He is also an assistant professor of history at the Cornell University who specializes in the Black Radical Tradition and African- American culture. In this article, Russell Rickford attempts to state the historical event that lead to the uprising of the movement called “Black Lives Matter”. Rickford addresses some of the harsh realities that colored Americans have faced throughout what he refers to as the “Age of Obama” (37). For example, Rickford mentions that when Black Lives Matter became a topic of conversations, many associate this movement with the idea that black people are being left “powerless at the hands of the state […] and being deprived of [their] basic human rights” (36). The author then states how the movement has the intention of change in the political and governmental actions that have been previously placed on blacks. He, also, makes the reader aware on racial differences has impacted the blacks in the past and continues to affect blacks today even after the attempts to create equality. Because Rickford states informative information to the reader about the historical reasoning and future affects on blacks, I plan on using this information to also inform my readers on why the Black Lives Matters movement should be taken more seriously.
