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Killing Trayvons : an anthology of American violence /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gray, Kevin Alexander (Editor), St. Clair, Jeffrey (Editor), Wypijewski, JoAnn (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Petrolia, California : CounterPunch Books, [2014]
Subjects:
African Americans > Violence against > United States.
Racial profiling in law enforcement > United States.
Racism > United States.
United States > Race relations.
Martin, Trayvon, > 1995-2012.
Zimmerman, George, > 1983-
Table of Contents:
  • 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.