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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786322403321

Titolo

Pursuing Trayvon Martin [[electronic resource] ] : historical contexts and contemporary manifestations of racial dynamics / / edited by George Yancy and Janine Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, : Lexington Books, c2013

ISBN

1-283-84719-1

0-7391-7883-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (304 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

YancyGeorge

JonesJanine <1961->

Disciplina

363.23089097

Soggetti

Stereotypes (Social psychology) - United States

Racial profiling in law enforcement - United States

Neighborhood watch programs - United States

Racism - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Now You See It, Now You Don't; Chapter Two: Imagined Communities; Chapter Three: Indignity and Death; Chapter Four: No Bigots Required; Chapter Five: Two Forms of Transcendence; Chapter Six: The Irreplaceability of Continued Struggle; Chapter Seven: Dead Black Man, Just Walking; Chapter Eight: Distorted Vision and Deadly Speech; Chapter Nine: "Seeing Black" through Michel Foucault's Eyes; Chapter Ten: Should Black Kids Avoid Wearing Hoodies?; Chapter Eleven: Can We Imagine This Happening to a White Boy?; Chapter Twelve: A Mother's Pain

Chapter Thirteen: Social Presence, Visibility, and the Eye of the BeholderChapter Fourteen: Trayvon Martin, Racism, and the Dilemma of the African American Parent; Chapter Fifteen: Refusing Blackness-as-Victimization; Chapter Sixteen: Politics, Moral Identity, and the Limits of White Silence; Chapter Seventeen: Trayvon Martin and the Tragedy of the New Jim Crow; Chapter Eighteen: "What Are You Doing around Here?"; Chapter Nineteen: Trayvon Martin; Chapter Twenty: Coda-Through the Eyes of a Mother; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the



Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Pursuing Trayvon Martin explores the historical implications of the fatal shooting of the unarmed black teen, Trayvon Martin, by George Zimmerman, in a gated community in Sanford, Florida on February 26, 2012. Possibly the first book to explore the case, it will make an important contribution as a source providing important analyses from which later scholars might draw and which will provide a context for understanding many of the issues involved in this case. The book telescopes