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Too many Black children are forced to define themselves from a position of absence and misrepresentation. Because of the unjust and harmful messages prevalent in our society and given the discouraging trial outcome and senseless loss of life of Trayvon Martin, it is now more vital than ever to support our Black sons, by recalling textual accounts of struggle and perseverance, by consulting historic responses to racism, and by furthering all current efforts to represent truer stories of Black male life in America.
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Wilkins, E.J. (2014). Using African American Children’s Literature as a Model for ‘Writing Back’ Racial Wrongs. 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_13
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