Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics - Paperback
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Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics - Paperback
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by George Yancy (Editor), Janine Jones (Editor)
Pursuing Trayvon Martin: Historical Contexts and Contemporary Manifestations of Racial Dynamics explores the historical implications of the fatal shooting of the unarmed black teen, Trayvon Martin, by George Zimmerman, in 2012. The book telescopes various themes that are important to a broad market, including race, masculinity, racial profiling, racist stereotyping, black youth and police violence, and racism.
Author Biography
George Yancy is associate professor of philosophy at Duquesne University. He is the author of Black Bodies, White Gazes: The Continuing Significance of Race (2008) and Look, a White! Philosophical Essays on Whiteness (2012). Yancy is the editor of over twelve books and has published articles in a variety of scholarly journals. In 2012, he was nominated for the Duquesne University Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarship.
Janine Jones is associate professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She is interested in philosophical topics and problems where race and gender, philosophy of mind, language, epistemology, and metaphysics intersect. She is the author of "Illusory Possibilities and Imagining Counterparts" Acta Analytica (2004), "The Impairment of Empathy in Goodwill Whites" in What White Looks Like, ed. George Yancy, Routledge (2004), and Racialized Embodiment in Racialized Realms (Forthcoming Suny).
Number of Pages: 316
Dimensions: 0.76 x 9.1 x 6.03 IN
Publication Date: May 15, 2014