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Viral videos of racism: how an old civil rights strategy is being used in a new digital age

Mourning in Minneapolis: Terrence Floyd at a vigil for his brother George Floyd on the spot where he died in police custody. Tannen Maury/EPA

<h1 class=”legacy”>Viral videos of racism: how an old civil rights strategy is being used in a new digital age</h1> <span><a href=”https://theconversation.com/profiles/sage-goodwin-1040749″>Sage Goodwin</a>, <em><a href=”https://theconversation.com/institutions/university-of-oxford-1260″>University of Oxford</a></em></span> <p>After a black bird-watcher filmed a white dog-walker on May 25 calling the police on him in response to his request she obey the dog-leash laws in the Ramble woodlands area of Central Park, …

Klein Ongaki Keren Weitzberg, UCL Hamdi was just an infant when his relatives first brought him to the Dadaab refugee camp in north-eastern Kenya to be registered as a refugee – despite the fact he was a Kenyan citizen. Like many ethnic Somali citizens of Kenya living in the vicinity of the camp, they were drawn to the prospect of …