Rhetoric Review Jan 2023

Trivialization and Disembodiment of the Black Lives Matter Movement through the Hashtag #BlackLinesMatter

Ann N. Amicucci University of Colorado Colorado Springs

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes1 I am grateful to RR reviewers Brandee Easter and Bridget Gelms for their help and guidance in the revision process and to Erin Johns Speese for her invaluable feedback throughout my work on this manuscript.

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Rhetoric Review
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2023-01-02
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10.1080/07350198.2022.2148235
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