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We are at a racial crossroads in American history, an era simultaneously marked by the election of the country’s first Black president, an event which seems to beg a restructuring of what Charles Johnson (2008) calls the ‘Black American narrative of victimization,” and the mass-incarceration and under education of African Americans (Alexander, 2010; Johnson, 2008).
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Diaquoi, R. (2014). Limited and Limitless. In: Fasching-Varner, K.J., Reynolds, R.E., Albert, K.A., Martin, L.L. (eds) Trayvon Martin, Race, and American Justice. Teaching Race and Ethnicity. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-842-8_15
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