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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Trayvon Martin"”.
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Media Insensitivity To People Of Color: A Comparison And Contrast Of How African Americans Are Portrayed In Mainstream Media To White Americans
… Zimmerman charged in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. After the verdict of not guilty was read, I remember tuning into social media and seeing people who looked like me tweet about how disappointed they were in the “system.” Leading up to the Zimmerman trial, I paid attention to how …
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Destroying Blackness One Body At A Time: Examining The Mediated Representations Of Lynchings Past And Present
… By looking specifically at two notable cases, Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown, a deeper insight can be gained into modern racial violence and its implications.</p>
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Exploring Racial Disparities of Victimization in Three Core Dimensions of Stand Your Ground Law: The Case of Florida
… death of an unarmed black teen in Florida, Trayvon Martin. Upon abolishing the ‘duty to retreat,’ the law has been criticized for allowing ordinary citizens to carry out vigilante justice. The media has shed light on a few incidents which indicate that young black males may be vulnerable to …
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Broken News: Market Segmentation and Selective Exposure in Online News
… 2012 State of the Union address and the death of Trayvon Martin revealed that the targeted audience influences the editorial slant through which news websites report stories.
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White fear, dehumanization and low empathy: A lethal combination for shooting biases
… individuals being shot in the past decade (e.g. Trayvon Martin, Jonathon Ferrell, Oscar Grant), a growing number of studies have been conducted to investigate shooter biases. The main goals of the current study were to investigate (1) whether individual differences in affective (i.e., White fear) …
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Black moms matter: competing discourses of black motherhood in the age of black lives matter
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2022-11-14 without embargo terms
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"Beyond Consolation": Or Strangeness, Estrangement, and Strange-ing in the Elegy for the Black Body, 1955-Present
<p>The Elegy for the Black Body examines the mid-twentieth to early-twenty-first-century poetic justice crafted by African American poets to eulogize individual African Americans whose deaths were the result of racial and political violence. In the age of lynching, mass shooting, and police …
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The archives mixtape: an education in (un)making Black deaths
… the country during the Obama era like teenager Trayvon Martin’s February 26, 2012 death in Sanford, Florida. Then I document and investigate the underground systems and spiritual initiatives of the Black biologically dead that are connected to Black biologically living people in the world …