This collection provides a deep engagement with the political implication of Black Lives Matter. This book covers a broad range of topics using a variety of methods and epistemological approaches.

Nadia E. Brown is University Faculty Scholar and Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Purdue University, USA. Brown is a scholar of American politics whose work focuses on identity politics, legislative studies, and Black women's studies, using the theory of intersectionality to study topics across multiple disciplines.

Ray Block Jr. is Associate Professor of Political Science and African American Studies at Pennsylvania State University, USA. His research interests include racial, ethnic, and gender differences in civic involvement, the formation and mutability of social identity, campaigns and elections, and other topics.

Christopher T. Stout is Associate Professor of Political Science at Oregon State University, USA. His research interests include racial and ethnic politics, gender and politics, political behavior, representation, and Congress.

Historical Development of the Black Lives Movement

1. American Political Development in the Era of Black Lives Matter

Debra Thompson and Chloe Thurston

2. The neo-Redemption Era? APD in the age of #Black lives matter

Kimberley S. Johnson

3. The Strange Fruit of American Political Development

Megan Ming Francis

4. American political development and black lives matter in the age of incarceration

Kirstine Taylor

5. (Re)Defining the black body in the era of Black Lives Matter: the politics of blackness, old and new

Shayla C. Nunnally

6. Racial gaslighting

Angelique M. Davis and Rose Ernst

Media, Politicians, Politics and Population

7. Framing police and protesters: assessing volume and framing of news coverage post-Ferguson, and corresponding impacts on legislative activity

Maneesh Arora, Davin L. Phoenix and Archie Delshad

8. Reframing racism: political cartoons in the era of Black Lives Matter

Anish Vanaik, Dawine Jengelley and Rolfe Peterson

9. Racialized differences in perceptions of and emotional responses to police killings of unarmed African Americans

Ernest B. McGown and Kristin N. Wylie

10. Scholarship on #BlackLivesMatter and its implications on local electoral politics

Jamil S. Scott and Nadia E. Brown

11. Tweeting racial representation: how the congressional Black Caucus used Twitter in the 113th congress

Alvin B. Tillery

12. The public's dilemma: race and political evaluations of police killings

Ethan V. Porter, Thomas Wood and Cathy Cohen

13. Black Americans and the "crime narrative": comments on the use of news frames and their impacts on public opinion formation

Jenn M. Jackson

14. Harbingers of unrest in Baltimore: racial and spatial cleavages in satisfaction with quality of life before the 2015 Uprising

Tyson D. King-Meadows

15. Targeting young men of color for search and arrest during traffic stops: evidence from North Carolina, 2002-2013

Frank R. Baumgartner, Derek A. Epp, Kelsey Shoub and Bayard Love

16. #BlackLivesDon'tMatter: race-of-victim effects in US executions, 1976-2013

Frank R. Baumgartner, Amanda J. Grigg and Alisa Mastro

17. Intersectional stereotyping in policing: An analysis of traffic stop outcomes

Leah Christiani

Who Participates and Why

18. Why participate? An intersectional analysis of LGBTQ people of color activism in Canada

Alexie Labelle

19. Race-ing solidarity: Asian Americans and support for Black Lives Matter

Julie Lee Merseth

20. Intersectional solidarity

F. Tormos