Black lives matter and respectability politics in local news accounts of officer-involved civilian deaths: An early empirical assessment

Wisconsin Law Review

Volumn 2016, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 541-574

  Obasogie, Osagie K ^a   Newman, Zachary ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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