Celebrity activism on racial justice during COVID-19: the death of George Floyd, the rise of Naomi Osaka, and the celebritization of race in pandemic times
Celebrity activism on racial justice during COVID-19: the death of George Floyd, the rise of Naomi Osaka, and the celebritization of race in pandemic times
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DOI：
10.1080/03906701.2022.2052457
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发表时间：
2022-03-16
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1.5
通讯作者：
Deflem，Mathieu
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作者：
Deflem，Mathieu
本文考察了新冠肺炎大流行期间美国名人种族正义激进主义的发展。从为救援工作提供支持的努力延伸到疫情爆发的第一年，在乔治·弗洛伊德被警方录像击毙后，名人激进主义戏剧性地转向种族正义问题。基于名人的建构主义视角，我从名人的动机和目标以及公众和媒体对名人的接受程度方面分析了这种关于种族正义的名人激进主义的模式和动态。因此，我将把重点放在大阪直美的激进主义上，这是一项特别成功的努力，因为这位网球明星对种族正义的倡导使她在名人激进主义世界中获得了核心地位。我的研究表明，新冠肺炎大流行期间在名人中广泛流行的种族正义激进主义，是在名人文化动态的作用下发展起来的，而不是当代种族正义潮流的倡导者。因此，种族正义本身成为名人文化的对象，这种广泛而持久的性质是当今种族正义的学者和倡导者都需要认识到的。
This paper examines the development of celebrity activism on racial justice in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. Extending from efforts to provide support in relief efforts, celebrity activism during the first year of the pandemic dramatically turned to matters of racial justice in the wake of the video-taped police killing of George Floyd. Based on a constructionist perspective of celebrity, I analyze the patterns and dynamics of this celebrity activism regarding racial justice in terms of the motives and objectives on the part of the celebrities and the reception thereof by the public and in the media. I will thereby focus on the activism of Naomi Osaka as a particularly successful effort because the tennis star’s advocacy on racial justice has enabled her to acquire a central position in the world of celebrity activism. I show that the racial justice activism embraced widely among celebrities during the COVID-19 pandemic developed in function of the dynamics of celebrity culture rather than as an exponent of contemporary racial justice currents. Racial justice itself thereby became an object of celebrity culture, the widespread and enduring nature of which both scholars and advocates of racial justice today need to recognize.