Local protest movements can aggregate into a national politics without top-down coordination

Evidence

You can build a national politics from the ground up rather than think about it as decisions that flow from the top down. That’s what the protests did. They connected what happened to Michael Brown in Missouri and Jessica Hernandez in Colorado and John Crawford III and Tanisha Anderson in Ohio with Eric Garner in New York and Trayvon Martin in Florida and Ezell Ford in California and Yvette Smith in Texas and Tony Terrell Robinson Jr. in Wisconsin. — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 620

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s existing knowledge of network theory and the Black Lives Matter chapter structure in recent scholarship. — connects to: Activists connected every local issue to personal and political significance — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 1255; Digital protest crowds behave like swarms that cannot be organized durably — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 343; A protest movement’s splintering makes its demands easy for rulers to ignore — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 302 (+12 more)