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A diverse collection of works centering on the case of Trayvon Martin--from exploring his killing and the acquittal of George Zimmerman in depth, to using the case as a jumping-off point to address the broader issue of skin privilege.
Introduction: Killing Trayvons / The Editors -- cartwheel on the blacktop (Trayvon Martin 2.0) (poem) / Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- Document extract: Sanford Police Department Report of Investigation, undated -- You really think the killer of Trayvon Martin will ever do time? / Alexander Cockburn -- Document: Narrative Report, Sanford Police file, 2/26/12 / George Zimmerman -- Document extract: Medical Examiner's Report, Volusia and Seminole Counties, 3/15/12 -- The lingering memory of dead boys / Tayari Jones -- A short, racist history of Sanford, Florida / Sean Yoes -- A senseless shooting in a soulless place / Alan Farago -- Document: Truth Verification Report, Sanford Police file, 2/27/12 -- Trayvon, Redux (poem) / Rita Dove -- Extract: "If I had a son..." / President Barack Obama -- What I have to teach my son / Etan Thomas -- Extract: In memory of Trayvon Martin and Bo Morrison / Matthew Rothschild -- Sighs of fire: Zimmerman as a domestic drone / Vijay Prashad --
A memory: On Queens Boulevard, the night Sean Bell's killers got off / JoAnn Wypijewski -- Extract: 1 black person killed every 28 hours / Adam Hudson -- Face to face with the NYPD: what they look like to a Guinean-American / Ibrahim Diallo -- A very short history of driving while black: scenes from the highway profiling patrol / Jeffrey St. Clair -- Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin and the protection of police murder / Thandisizwe Chimurenga -- Terrorist (poem) / David 'Judah 1' Oliver -- The cancer of police violence / Mike King -- For a national alliance for racial justice and human rights / Ajamu Baraka -- Gun laws and race in America / Robert Chase and Yohuru Williams -- The new vigilantes / Chris Kromm -- Fatal encounters / D. Brian Burghart -- The ground we stand on: on inaugurations, anniversaries and the deaths of Trayvon Martin / Pier Gabrielle Foreman --
Marijuana's "dark side": drugs, race and the criminalization of Trayvon Martin / Alexander Tepperman -- The trick bag of the perfect victim / Jill Nelson -- Who's afraid of black men's eyes? / John Eskow -- Document: FBI forensic audio analysis, 4/2/12 -- The deadly legacy of vigilantism / Jamilah King -- Russell Simmons tells black people not to start a race war over Trayvon Martin / Yvette Carnell -- The white right to riot / Chuck Modiano -- "So, I ask you, what if Trayvon Martin were Asian?" / Scot Nakagawa -- "Do you care when blacks kill other blacks?" / Thandisizwe Chimurenga -- The race-baiting of America / Patricia Williams --
A trial is never about the truth / Bruce Jackson -- Document extract: Sanford Police Department Capias Request, 3/13/12 -- Extract: Trial testimony / Sybrina Fulton -- "Thank you, Rachel Jeantel" / Mychal Denzel Smith -- Extract: Defense closing argument, Florida v. George Zimmerman, July 12, 2013 / Mark O'Mara -- The critical role of women in the Zimmerman decision / Brenda E. Stevenson -- White women in the jury box / Monica J. Casper -- Perversities of justice / Linn Washington, Jr. -- "No rights that any white man is bound to respect": what it feels like to be black in America / Kevin Alexander Gray --
A memory: Poem about police violence (poem) / June Jordan -- When will it end? / New York Daily News, July 15, 2013 -- How the system worked: the US v. Trayvon Martin / Robin D.G. Kelley -- Investigate the racial context behind Trayvon Martin's death / Rev. Jesse L. Jackson -- Tried for his own death / Jesmyn Ward -- Extract: "We will not be moved" / Phillip Agnew -- An open letter to white people about Trayvon Martin / Kyle 'Guante' Tran Myhre -- Obama dog-whistles over Trayvon / Margaret Kimberley -- George Zimmerman is entitled to civil rights protections, too / Michael Meyers -- Trayvon and white madness / Glen Ford -- "Sometimes you have to shout to be heard" / Rodolfo Acuña -- Extract: "Just being a regular teenager" / an interview with bell hooks, by Quassan Castro -- No innocence left to kill: explaining America to my daughter / Tim Wise -- A symphony for Trayvon Martin / Yotan Marom -- Am I a race traitor?: Trayvon Martin, gender talk and invisible black women / Jasmine Nicole Salters -- Extract: On second thought / President Barack Obama -- Extract: "President Obama is a global George Zimmerman" / an interview with Dr. Cornel West, by Amy Goodman--
Remembering how to grieve (poem) / Asam Ahmad -- The race is on: Arabs, blackness and the American imagination / Moustafa Bayoumi -- Anxiety is killing us: so what do we do about it? / Dani McClain -- The master's tools: a grassroots fight against police violence, case study / Jordan Flaherty -- Really the invisible man blues / Dave Marsh -- Anyone's son (poem) / Tara Skurtu.
edited by Kevin Alexander Gray, Jeffrey St. Clair, JoAnn Wypijewski.