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Abstract
| Racial justice movements such as the Civil Rights Movement (CRM) and Black Lives Matter movement (BLM) have historically been perceived as contentious by whites in American society. This study explores white perceptions of Black social movements such as the Civil Rights Movement and Black Lives Matter movement utilizing survey research with a random sample size of 5,000 University of Wisconsin-La Crosse undergraduate students. Through an analysis of the variable police response and media involvement, the collected data will explore how these factors influence white college students’ perceptions. By using Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s frames of colorblind racism (abstract liberalism, naturalization, cultural racism, and minimization of racism), I will examine how covert racism is still an underlying factor in the current ‘post-racial society.’ This study’s findings both supported and contradicted previous literature. |
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