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

2014
ISBN: 978-94-6209-785-8
Verlag: Sense Publishers
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 180 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Youth, Media, & Culture Series

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Winters, Venus E. Evans

Bethune, Magaela C.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: (Re)Teaching Trayvon; Portrayals and Betrayals of the Black Male Body; The Understanding; Blackness Enclosed: Understanding the Trayvon Martin Incident through the Long History of Black Male Imagery; “Looking-like Trayvon”: The Narratives We Tell about Race; What Suspicious Looks Like: The Murder of Trayvon Martin; From Tre Styles to Trayvon Martin: The Implications of Socially Constructed Identities on the George Zimmerman Verdict; Damaging Glances in Education: Understanding the Media’s Role in Stereotype Reproduction and Reinforcement of Negative Images of African American Males; Trayvon’s Demise as a Function of Endemic Racism; A Statement Concerning Concern; The Man in the Mirror; 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; Reflections on Trayvon Martin; Pedagogical Approaches to Combating Racism and (Re)Teaching Trayvon; Trayvon’s Closing Statement; “Boxed in” Black: Ascribing Black Pathological Norms onto Trayvon Martin and Other Adolescent Black Male Youth; Rotten to Its Core: Trayvon Martin as a Microcosm of American Racism; An Untold Story of Two Races and the Criminal Justice System: What We Can Learn from the Case of Trayvon Martin and Other Cases; Beyond Hoodies and Hashtags: What Early Childhood and Elementary Teachers Can Do to Combat the Trayvon Martin Phenomenon in Schools; Conclusion; Contributors.