(Re)Teaching Trayvon: Education for Racial Justice and Human Freedom

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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, classroom teachers, and legal experts. With the Trayvon Martin murder and legal proceedings at the center of reflection and analysis, authors poignantly provide insight into how racial violence is institutionalized and consumed by the mass public. Authors borrow from educational theory, history, gender studies, sociology, cultural studies, the arts, legal scholarship, and personal reflection to begin the dialogue on how to move toward education for racial and social justice. The book is recommended for secondary educators, community organizers, undergraduate and graduate social science and education courses.

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Blackness Enclosed
Understanding the Trayvon Martin Incident through the Long History of Black Male Imagery
Pages: 11–23
“Looking-like Trayvon”
The Narratives We Tell about Race
Pages: 25–41
What Suspicious Looks Like
The Murder of Trayvon Martin
Pages: 43–54
From Tre Styles to Trayvon Martin
The Implications of Socially Constructed Identities on the George Zimmerman Verdict
Pages: 55–63
Damaging Glances in Education
Understanding the Media’s Role in Stereotype Reproduction and Reinforcement of Negative Images of African American Males
Pages: 65–75
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
Pages: 95–108
“Boxed in” Black
Ascribing Black Pathological Norms onto Trayvon Martin and Other Adolescent Black Male Youth
Pages: 119–132
Rotten to Its Core
Trayvon Martin as a Microcosm of American Racism
Pages: 133–141
An Untold Story of Two Races and the Criminal Justice System
What We Can Learn from the Case of Trayvon Martin and Other Cases
Pages: 143–161
What if We All Wore Hoodies?
Educational Silencing of Black Male Voices
Pages: 163–185
Beyond Hoodies and Hashtags
What Early Childhood and Elementary Teachers Can Do to Combat the Trayvon Martin Phenomenon in Schools
Pages: 187–194
Conclusion
Pages: 195–197
Educational Researchers and their students
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