Why the world says Breonna Taylor’s name
Why the world says Breonna Taylor’s name
- March 11, 2021
- David Meyer, sociology, WFPL, March 11, 2021
Short stories are easy to remember. They feed outrage, circulate swiftly and often triumph over more complicated narratives, according to David Meyer, a professor of sociology at UC Irvine and author of “The Politics of Protest: Social Movements in America.” Take the story of Rosa Parks. … But he said telling a story about hundreds of activist heroes is harder. It’s more effective to tell the story of one person and one event to symbolize a broader set of circumstances.
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