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Re(teaching) Trayvon : education for racial justice and human freedom / edited by Venus E. Evans-Winters and Magaela C. Bethune.

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The authors bring you in this edited volume a collection of essays that address the relationship between racial violence, media, the criminal justice system, and education. This book is unique in that it brings together the perspectives of university professors, artists, poets, community activists,...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Authors: Evans-Winters, Venus E. (Author, Editor), Bethune, Magaela C. (Magaela Christina) (Author, Editor)
Other title:Education for racial justice and human freedom
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Rotterdam : Sense Publishers, ©2014.
Series:Youth, media, & culture series v. 2.
Subjects:
Martin, Trayvon, > 1995-2012.
Martin, Trayvon, > 1995-2012
Social justice > United States.
Racism > United States.
Sociological jurisprudence > United States.
Critical pedagogy > United States.
Pedagogical content knowledge.
Young adults > United States > Conduct of life.
Self-preservation.
Critical pedagogy
Pedagogical content knowledge
Racism
Self-preservation
Social justice
Sociological jurisprudence
Young adults > Conduct of life
United States
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : (Re)teaching Trayvon / Venus E. Evans-Winters
  • Part I: Portrayals and betrayals of the black male body ; The understanding / A.D. Carson
  • Blackness enclosed : understanding the Trayvon Martin incident through the long history of black male imagery / Anthony L. Brown & Marcus W. Johnson
  • "Looking-like Trayvon" : the narratives we tell about race / Karen A. Johnson & Kenneth L. Johnson
  • What suspicious looks like : the murder of Trayvon Martin / Antonio L. Ellis
  • From Tre Styles to Trayvon Martin : the implications of socially constructed identities on the George Zimmerman verdict / Erica Thurman
  • Damaging glances in education : understanding the media's role in stereotype reproduction and reinforcement of negative images of African American males / Darrell Cleveland Hucks
  • Part II: Trayvon's demise as a function of endemic racism ; A statement concerning concern / A.D. Carson
  • The man in the mirror / Jason Whitney Biehl
  • No Justice in a white man's land : preparing teachers and teacher educators to erase the mark of inferiority in the wake of Trayvon Martin's death / Haroon Kharem & Trina Yearwood
  • Reflections on Trayvon Martin / Anton Lendor
  • Part III: Pedagogical approaches to combating racism and (re)teaching Trayvon ; Trayvon's closing statement / Kevin "3AM" Smith
  • "Boxed in" black : ascribing black pathological norms onto Trayvon Martin and other adolescent black male youth / Ahmad R. Washington, Janice Byrd, Jamar Booth & Malik S. Henfield
  • Rotten to its core : Trayvon Martin as a microcosm of American racism / David J. Leonard
  • An untold story of two races and the criminal justice system : what we can learn from the case of Trayvon Martin and other cases / Nicholas D. Hartlep & Daisy Ball
  • What if we all wore hoodies? educational silencing of black male voices / Christopher B. Knaus
  • Beyond hoodies and hashtags : what early childhood and elementary teachers can do to combat the Trayvon Martin phenomenon in schools / Terry Husband
  • Conclusion / Magaela C. Bethune.

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