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The death of Trayvon Martin helped to resurface thoughts from theorists and critics about the tentative status of African American males in the U. S. Many asked questions about whether Trayvon’s death and the subsequent acquittal of George Zimmerman helped to set in place a new kind of racial contract (Mills, 1997), where racial violence is sanctioned and justified, as opposed to being extralegal—particularly for the young, urban Black male.
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Brown, A.L., Johnson, M.W. (2014). Blackness Enclosed. In: Evans-Winters, V.E., Bethune, M.C. (eds) (Re)Teaching Trayvon. Youth, Media, & Culture Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-785-8_3
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