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“Black Lives Matter does not focus on a binary and absolute understanding of victimhood… Rather, they emphasize the humanity of each person—victim or potential victim, criminal or not—derived from discourses of human rights… deaths [the] consequence of a social problem."
Aligned with the Dead: Representations of Victimhood and the Dead in Anti-Police Violence Activism Online
Death Matters: Cultural Sociology of Mortal Life
(Tora Holmberg, Annika Jonsson, Fredrik Palm, eds.), pp. 199–220,
2019
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