Stasis Grid

Author Info

Source Type

Categorical

Definitional

Causal

Evaluation

Action

Jurisdiction

Up to three names,
write them all; 4+,
write first name et
al. (i.e., Smith et
al.)

(popular, scholarly,
trade, government)

Does X exist?

Is X a Y?

Does X cause Y?
Is Y a result of X?

Is it good or bad?
Fair or unfair?
Harmful or
beneficial?

What should be
done about X?

Who is responsible?

Is an angry
AfricanAmerican
who acts out a
part of the
BLM
movement?

Is the BLM
movement
worsening
race relations?

1. Sara
Sidner

Popular

2. Jelani
Cobb

Popular

Does the
future of the
BLM
movement
exist?

3. Nikita
Carney

Scholarly

Is White
Supremacy
only for
whites? Or can
it benefit
others?

4. Tanya
Basu

Popular

Is there a such
thing as white
flight?

Social media
plays a huge
role in the
important of
the BLM
movement
Is the BLM
movement a
movement with
prosperity?

Does
#BlackLivesM
atter and
#AllLivesMatte
r stand for the
same thing?

Big-named
AfricanAmerican
figures should
be more vocal
about the
BLM
movement
AfricanAmericans
need to stop
accepting
these
stereotypes

Does the fear

of the black
man cause
racial injustice?

We need to
remove the
fear from
white people
alongside
officers so
justice can be
set in place.

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5. Samuel
R.
Aymer

Scholarly

6. Jonatha
n W.
Hutto
Sr.,
Rodney
D.
Green

Scholarly

7. Ian
Tuttle

Popular

8. Hannah
LF
Cooper

Scholarly

Is oppression
and police
brutality the
same as slavery
and Jim crow
laws?

Blackaphobia
cause whites
and officers to
fear AfricanAmericans

Does Jim Crow

still exist?

Is racial profiling
acceptable based
off a few
members of a
certain race?
Is it fair that the
officers do not
receive the
punishment they
deserve?

Does the BLM

movement
cause the war
on cops?
The war on
drugs is
another form of
racial injustice.

A spirit of
conciliation
needs to occur
to stop the
violence.
The war on drugs
breaks apart
many families
and causes
poverty in the
African American
community

The countys
experience also
suggests that
racism is
entrenched in
the structure of
policing, and
that it is highly
resistant to
change due to
its functionality
in the broader
national
socioeconomic
system
BLM is
responsible for
the senseless
crimes being
committed.
The court
system needs
punish more
serious crimes
rather than
these types.

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9. Bijan
Stephen

Popular

10. Jenna
Wortha
m

Scholarly

11. Hoffma
n, L.,
N.
Grange
r, L.
Vallejo
s, and
M.
Moats

Scholarly

The BLM
movement
would not exist
without social
media

The variety of
local
campaigns
associated with
Black Lives
Matter
confounds
attempts to
portray the
movement in
fine detail

Any large
social
movement is
shaped by the
technology
available to it
and tailors its
goals, tactics,
and rhetoric to
the media of its
time
The BLM
movement is
more than
about the
killings, but
also the
acknowledgme
nt of black art.
(Acting, Sing,
etc.)

All members of
the movement
and even others
who are not
apart of the
movement
helped blow up
situations with
social media
Are hash tags like
#OscarsSoWhite
diminishing the
purpose of the
BLM movement?

Black Lives
Matter does not
mean that all
other lives do
not matter as
well.

Black Twitter, a
constellation of
loosely formed
multifaceted
communities
created
spontaneously
by and for
black Twitter
users who
follow or
promote black
culture

America must
see that riots
do not
develop out of
thin air

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12. Khadija Scholarly
h White

13. Anealla
Safdar

Popular

14. Monica
Anders,
Paul
Hitlin

Popular

Black lives
matter is both
a call to
action and a
societal
indictment

Does the
negative
effect exist
within the
social media
scope of the
movement?

Is social media
the cause for
the outrage of
the BLM
movement?

Tweets related
to the Black
Lives Matter
movement
suggest that
sadness,
rather than
anger, might
be more
effective in
galvanizing
people into
action

Black Lives
Matter is
loosely made
up of various
groups and
organizations
advocating for
Black health
and progress on
various levels
of society

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15. Niraj
Choksh
i

Popular

Does The BLM

movement exist
without the
hash tags?

It wasnt until
two black
men died in
the summer of
2014 that
Black Lives
Matter began
to flicker to
life as a
Twitter hash
tag

The BLM
movement
needs to keep
pushing the
social media
platform

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Internet Science Tech RSS. N.p., 15 Aug. 2016. Web. 27 Oct. 2016.
Aymer, Samuel R. "I Cant Breathe: A Case StudyHelping Black Men Cope with Race-related Trauma Stemming from Police
Killing and Brutality." Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment 26.3-4 (2016): 367-76. Web.
Basu, Tanya. "Why Americans See Black Men as a Threat." Inverse. N.p., July 2016. Web. 1 Oct. 2016.
Carney, N. "All Lives Matter, but so Does Race: Black Lives Matter and the Evolving Role of Social Media." Humanity &
Society 40.2 (2016): 180-99. Web.
Chokshi, Niraj. "How #BlackLivesMatter Came to Define a Movement." The New York Times. The New York Times, 22 Aug. 2016.
Web. 27 Oct. 2016.

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Cooper, Hannah Lf. "War on Drugs Policing and Police Brutality." Substance Use & Misuse 50.8-9 (2015): 1188-194. Web.
Greenberg, Jonathan. "Black Lives Matters Hypocritical Anti-Semitism." Washington Times. The Washington Times, 26 Aug. 2016.
Web. 8 Oct. 2016.
Hoffman, L., N. Granger, L. Vallejos, and M. Moats. "An Existential-Humanistic Perspective on Black Lives Matter and
Contemporary Protest Movements." Journal of Humanistic Psychology 56.6 (2016): 595-611. Web.
Hutto, Jonathan W., and Rodney D. Green. "Social Movements Against Racist Police Brutality and Department of Justice Intervention
in Prince Georges County, Maryland." Journal of Urban Health J Urban Health 93.S1 (2016): 89-121. Web.
Safdar, Anealla. "Black Lives Matter: The Social Media behind a Movement." - News from Al Jazeera. N.p., 3 Aug. 2016. Web. 27
Oct. 2016.
Sidner, Sara. "The Rise of Black Lives Matter." CNN. Cable News Network, 28 Dec. 2015. Web. 1 Oct. 2016.
Stephen, Bijan. "How Black Lives Matter Uses Social Media to Fight the Power." Wired.com. Conde Nast Digital, Nov. 2015. Web. 24
Oct. 2016.
Tuttle, Ian. "More Hypocrisy from Black Lives Matter." National Review. N.p., 12 July 2016. Web. 10 Oct. 2016.
White, Khadijah. "Black Lives on Campuses Matter: Reflecting on the Rise of the New Black Student Movement." Soundings 63.63
(2016): 86-97. Web

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WORTHAM, JENNA. "Black Tweets Matter." Smithsonian 47.5 (2016): 21-24. Academic Search Complete. Web. 27 Oct.
2016.