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The Assault on Communities of Color
Exploring the Realities of Race-Based Violence
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2015
Summary
The United States is not post-racial, despite claims otherwise. The days of lynching have been replaced with a pernicious modern racism and race-based violence equally strong and more difficult to untangle. This violence too often results in the killing of Black Americans, particularly males. While society may believe we have transcended race, contemporary history tells another story with the recent killings of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and others. While their deaths are tragic, the greater tragedy is that incidents making the news are only a fraction of the assault on communities of color in. This volume takes seriously the need for concentrated and powerful dialogue to emerge in the wake of these murders that illuminates the assault in a powerful and provocative way. Through a series of essays, written by leading and emerging academics in the field of race studies, the short “conversations” in this collection challenge readers to contemplate the myth of post-raciality, and the real nature of the assaults on communities of color. The essays in this volume, all under 2000 words, cut to the heart of the matter using current assaults as points of departure and is relevant to education, sociology, law, social work, and criminology.
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Copyright year
2015
ISBN-Print
978-1-4758-1972-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-4758-1974-8
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
233
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Foreword No access
Red Riding Hoodie No access
By Means of Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
Peace No access Pages 9 - 10
1 Complicating Black and Brown Solidarity No access
2 The Opposite of a Great Lie No access
3 Apartheid and Symbolic Violence in the New Latin@ South No access
4 I Get Angry No access
5 Ferguson and the Violence of “It’s-All-About-Me” White Liberalism No access
6 “I Need to Check with Corporate” No access
7 Skittles, AriZona Iced Tea, and Cigarettes No access
8 Are We Post-Post-Race Yet? No access
9 Contradicting Realities in the Mythical Post-Racial No access
10 What Divides Black America? No access
11 Normalizing Black Death No access
12 Viewing Barack Obama through Racist Stereotypes No access
13 When Michael’s Death Means Our Own Children’s Death No access
14 Respectability Politics and Acts of Violence No access
15 Countering Postcolonial Assaults on Black American Life No access
16 We Can’t Breathe: The Impacts of Police Brutality on Women of Color No access
17 Killing Me Softly No access
18 The Sketch Factor No access
19 Racial Justice in America No access
20 The Death of Amir De’Mani Brooks No access
21 Save Our Black Males No access
22 What If My Trayvon Came Home? No access
23 A Black Male Body—Normalcy, Never Again No access
24 Michael Brown and the Shared Ambivalence of Black and Brown America No access
25 Echoes of “People Stealers” No access
26 And to Make Matters Worse No access
27 And You Wonder Why I Am an Angry Black Man No access
28 Desensationalizing Black Males No access
29 If The System’s Broke . . . No access
30 Grey Hoodies, Baggy Jeans, and Brown Skin No access
IV: The Fight for Equity: Communities Speak Up and Out No access
31 To Be Men and Women No access
32 Educational Research and Institutionalized Oppression No access
33 Necessary and Insufficient No access
34 The Insidiousness of Indifference to Black Injury in White America No access
35 Resisting the Dehumanization of Youth of Color No access
36 A Call for Compassion No access
37 Living the Silence No access
38 New-Freedom School Movement No access
39 Dreaming of Revolution No access
40 Postmodern Fire Hoses No access
Afterword No access
About the Editors and Contributors No access Pages 229 - 233
