id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_llry6p2qfzggdfuxrnlw5hnle4 Christopher C. Towler Shut Up and Play: Black Athletes, Protest Politics, and Black Political Action 2019 17 .pdf application/pdf 11728 1071 55 movements, specifically Colin Kaepernick's protest of police violence and whether his activism mobilizes black Americans to Using the 2017 Black Voter Project (BVP) Pilot Study, we explore African American political engagement in the More recently, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has spawned a new generation of sporting celebrities protesting state violence against black Americans. sporting celebrities, on black political action. political protest engaged in by the black sport stars whom we political protest engaged in by the black sport stars whom we tendency of black sporting celebrities to engage in racebased protest politics that complement ongoing social Because of the collective identity their protests represent, close consideration of black sport celebrities engaged with group-based mobilization, blacks who strongly approve of Kaepernick's protest will engage at higher rates H3: Black attitudes toward Kaepernick moderate the relationship between Black Lives Matter identity and political engagement, such that blacks who report strong BLM identity and ./cache/work_llry6p2qfzggdfuxrnlw5hnle4.pdf ./txt/work_llry6p2qfzggdfuxrnlw5hnle4.txt