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Analyze the role of strong and weak ties in a specific social movement of your choice. Research outside sources to help you develop and support your analysis. Use Charles Duhigg’s essay for help along with 3-5 additional primary and secondary sources to help you build your analysis. Your primary sources in this assignment will first-hand accounts of the social movement and/or texts created by the social movement (including first-hand descriptions and testimonies as well as advocacy materials including websites, memes, open letters, platforms or mission statements, etc.). These sources will be the primary objects of your analysis. Your secondary sources in this assignment will include Duhigg as well as other critical and/or scholarly sources that help you analyze your primary texts. They may provide informational as well as analytical help.
my social movement are black lives movement, all my information for my social movement in the file and also my sources .
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BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT
Black Lives Matter movement began as an online campaign with a purpose of
campaigning against racism, violence and the oppression experienced by the blacks in America.
The movement originated from the black community but over the years it has gained popularity
and attracted activists globally who have helped in campaigning against the same. The
movement began in the United States because of police brutality, violence and racial
discrimination against the African-Americans because of their color. The movement gained
maximum recognition after the killing a teenager by the name Trayvon Martin. The strong ties
among the black community helped to instigate the movement while on the other side, the weak
ties, specifically Facebook, and Twitter platforms have helped to catalyze the spread of
information, raising the awareness at a great speed globally. The black lives movement has
therefore been spearheaded by both strong and weak ties which have had a significant role in its
development and establishment as a social movement.
The black lives matter movement was formed because the black Americans felt they were
being oppressed and that some of their rights as citizens were not given much weight by the
government. The cases of police brutality against the blacks were on the rise and many lives
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were being lost in the process. Violence towards the blacks was and still is on the rise, a factor
that makes the black community and the Americans at large to have a different perspective on
the matter. The movement was therefore started to bring all the atrocities and loss of black lives
to an end.
Black lives movement started off as a hash tag of #Blacklivematter on social media
platforms. The hash tag was widely used on social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and
Instagram back in 2012 after the murder of Trayvon Martin. The hash tag# spre...