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Titolo: | Pursuing Trayvon Martin : historical contexts and contemporary manifestations of racial dynamics / / edited by George Yancy and Janine Jones |
Pubblicazione: | Lanham, : Lexington Books, c2013 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
Disciplina: | 363.23089097 |
Soggetto topico: | Stereotypes (Social psychology) - United States |
Racial profiling in law enforcement - United States | |
Neighborhood watch programs - United States | |
Racism - United States | |
Altri autori: | YancyGeorge JonesJanine <1961-> |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Pursuing Trayvon Martin |
ISBN: | 1-283-84719-1 |
0-7391-7883-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910822908903321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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