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No Justice in a White Man’s Land

Preparing Teachers and Teacher Educators to Erase the Mark of Inferiority in the Wake of Trayvon Martin’s Death

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“Many people today, despite the evidence, will not believe—don’t want to believe—that such atrocities happened in America not so very long ago…And as in most lynchings, the white press and public expresses its solidarity in the name of white supremacy and ignored any information that contradicted the people’s verdict”.

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  1. Haroon Kharem
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  1. Illinois State University, USA

    Venus E. Evans-Winters

  2. Vanderbilt University, USA

    Magaela C. Bethune

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Kharem, H., Yearwood, T. (2014). No Justice in a White Man’s Land. 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_10

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