Killing Trayvons
Subtitle: an anthology of American violence
By: edited by Kevin Alexander Gray, Jeffrey St. Clair, JoAnn Wypijewski
Publisher: CounterPunch Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9780692213995
Subjects: Racial profiling in law enforcement; Race relations; African Americans; Violence against; Racism
Description: A diverse collection of works centering on the case of Trayvon Martin--from exploring his killing and the acquittal of George Zimmerman in depth, to using the case as a jumping-off point to address the broader issue of skin privilege.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Killing Trayvons  -- The Editors; title: cartwheel on the blacktop (Trayvon Martin 2.0) -- (poem) / -- Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- Document extract:; title: Sanford Police Department Report of Investigation, undated --; title: You really think the killer of Trayvon Martin will ever do time?  -- Alexander Cockburn -- Document:; title: Narrative Report, Sanford Police file, 2/26/12  -- George Zimmerman -- Document extract:; title: Medical Examiner's Report, Volusia and Seminole Counties, 3/15/12 --; title: The lingering memory of dead boys  -- Tayari Jones; title: A short, racist history of Sanford, Florida  -- Sean Yoes; title: A senseless shooting in a soulless place  -- Alan Farago -- Document:; title: Truth Verification Report, Sanford Police file, 2/27/12 --; title: Trayvon, Redux -- (poem) / -- Rita Dove -- Extract:; title: "If I had a son..."  -- President Barack Obama; title: What I have to teach my son  -- Etan Thomas -- Extract:; title: In memory of Trayvon Martin and Bo Morrison  -- Matthew Rothschild; title: Sighs of fire: Zimmerman as a domestic drone -- Vijay Prashad; title: A memory:; title: On Queens Boulevard, the night Sean Bell's killers got off  -- JoAnn Wypijewski -- Extract:; title: 1 black person killed every 28 hours  -- Adam Hudson; title: Face to face with the NYPD: what they look like to a Guinean-American  -- Ibrahim Diallo; title: A very short history of driving while black: scenes from the highway profiling patrol  -- Jeffrey St. Clair; title: Oscar Grant, Trayvon Martin and the protection of police murder  -- Thandisizwe Chimurenga; title: Terrorist -- (poem) / -- David 'Judah 1' Oliver; title: The cancer of police violence  -- Mike King; title: For a national alliance for racial justice and human rights  -- Ajamu Baraka; title: Gun laws and race in America  -- Robert Chase and Yohuru Williams; title: The new vigilantes  -- Chris Kromm; title: Fatal encounters  -- D. Brian Burghart; title: The ground we stand on: on inaugurations, anniversaries and the deaths of Trayvon Martin -- Pier Gabrielle Foreman; title: Marijuana's "dark side": drugs, race and the criminalization of Trayvon Martin  -- Alexander Tepperman; title: The trick bag of the perfect victim  -- Jill Nelson; title: Who's afraid of black men's eyes?  -- John Eskow -- Document:; title: FBI forensic audio analysis, 4/2/12 --; title: The deadly legacy of vigilantism  -- Jamilah King; title: Russell Simmons tells black people not to start a race war over Trayvon Martin  -- Yvette Carnell; title: The white right to riot  -- Chuck Modiano; title: "So, I ask you, what if Trayvon Martin were Asian?"  -- Scot Nakagawa; title: "Do you care when blacks kill other blacks?"  -- Thandisizwe Chimurenga; title: The race-baiting of America -- Patricia Williams; title: A trial is never about the truth  -- Bruce Jackson -- Document extract:; title: Sanford Police Department Capias Request, 3/13/12 -- -- Extract:; title: Trial testimony  -- Sybrina Fulton; title: "Thank you, Rachel Jeantel"  -- Mychal Denzel Smith -- Extract:; title: Defense closing argument, Florida v. George Zimmerman, July 12, 2013  -- Mark O'Mara; title: The critical role of women in the Zimmerman decision  -- Brenda E. Stevenson; title: White women in the jury box  -- Monica J. Casper; title: Perversities of justice  -- Linn Washington, Jr.; title: "No rights that any white man is bound to respect": what it feels like to be black in America -- Kevin Alexander Gray; title: A memory:; title: Poem about police violence -- (poem) / -- June Jordan; title: When will it end?  -- New York Daily News, July 15, 2013; title: How the system worked: the US v. Trayvon Martin  -- Robin D.G. Kelley; title: Investigate the racial context behind Trayvon Martin's death  -- Rev. Jesse L. Jackson; title: Tried for his own death  -- Jesmyn Ward -- Extract:; title: "We will not be moved"  -- Phillip Agnew; title: An open letter to white people about Trayvon Martin  -- Kyle 'Guante' Tran Myhre; title: Obama dog-whistles over Trayvon  -- Margaret Kimberley; title: George Zimmerman is entitled to civil rights protections, too  -- Michael Meyers; title: Trayvon and white madness  -- Glen Ford; title: "Sometimes you have to shout to be heard"  -- Rodolfo Acuña -- Extract:; title: "Just being a regular teenager"  -- an interview with bell hooks, by Quassan Castro; title: No innocence left to kill: explaining America to my daughter  -- Tim Wise; title: A symphony for Trayvon Martin  -- Yotan Marom; title: Am I a race traitor?: Trayvon Martin, gender talk and invisible black women  -- Jasmine Nicole Salters -- Extract:; title: On second thought  -- President Barack Obama -- Extract:; title: "President Obama is a global George Zimmerman" -- an interview with Dr. Cornel West, by Amy Goodman; title: Remembering how to grieve -- (poem) / -- Asam Ahmad; title: The race is on: Arabs, blackness and the American imagination  -- Moustafa Bayoumi; title: Anxiety is killing us: so what do we do about it?  -- Dani McClain; title: The master's tools: a grassroots fight against police violence, case study  -- Jordan Flaherty; title: Really the invisible man blues  -- Dave Marsh; title: Anyone's son-- (poem) /-- Tara Skurtu.