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  • Trayvon Martin and Making Whiteness Visible

    If there’s one good thing to come out of the George Zimmerman verdict, it’s the acknowledgement of white privilege

  • Obama on Trayvon Martin: The first black president speaks out first as a black American

    Obama on Trayvon Martin: The first black president speaks out first as a black American The Washington Post 2013-07-20 David Maraniss Trayvon Martin, the president said, could have been him 35 years ago. That would have been Barack Obama at age 17, then known as Barry and living in Honolulu. He had a bushy Afro.…

  • Weeding Out the Riffraff

    Weeding Out the Riffraff The New York Times Home & Garden 2013-07-17 Penelope Green, Editor At Home With Sheila Bridges Sheila Bridges played the cancer card only once, when a state trooper stopped her for speeding on the Taconic Parkway. At the time, Ms. Bridges, the interior designer Time magazine once celebrated as one of…

  • Race Remixed? — Probationary Whites and a Racism Reality Check

    Race Remixed? — Probationary Whites and a Racism Reality Check Living Anthropologically: Anthropology – Understanding – Possibility 2011-30-28 (Updated July 2013) Jason Antrosio, Associate Professor of Anthropology Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York This is an update to the original article, “Race Remixed?” from March 28, 2011. Update July 2013: In the wake of Trayvon Martin…

  • Obama, from Rev. Wright to Trayvon Martin

    Obama, from Rev. Wright to Trayvon Martin The Washington Post 2013-07-20 Dan Balz, Chief Correspondent President Obama’s comments on Friday about the killing of Trayvon Martin were remarkable in many respects, but not least because of the distance he has traveled since the equally notable speech he delivered in 2008 during the controversy about his…

  • Barack and Trayvon

    Barack and Trayvon The New York Times 2013-07-19 Charles M. Blow, Visual Op-Ed Columnist On Friday President Obama picked at America’s racial wound, and it bled a bit. Despite persistent attempts by some to divest the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman tragedy of its racial resonance, the president refused to allow it. During a press briefing, Mr.…

  • White Privilege: A Multimedia Analysis

    White Privilege: A Multimedia Analysis The Sociological Cinema: teaching & learning sociology through video 2013-07-08 Paul Dean, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Ohio Wesleyan University White privilege refers to the unearned advantages that whites receive because of their skin color. It includes a vast array of concrete advantages varying from institutional settings (systemic discrimination…

  • Zimmerman, Whiteness and Latinos

    Zimmerman, Whiteness and Latinos ABC News/Univision 2013-07-18 Leticia Alvarado, Assistant Professor of American Studies Brown University Saturday night bore a particularly saturated darkness, tinged by the news of George Zimmerman’s acquittal of all charges in connection to the death of not-yet-man-not-quite-child Trayvon Martin. A range of single-word status updates overtook my various social media feeds…

  • Fighting the ‘White Man’s War’

    Fighting the ‘White Man’s War’ The New York Times 2013-07-19 Aaron Barnhart and Diane Eickhoff The Battle of Honey Springs was one of the only Civil War engagements where the majority of the combatants were non-white. Three miles down a gravel road near Rentiesville, Okla., sits a portable building that, for now, serves as the…

  • This is the speech we’ve been waiting for

    This is the speech we’ve been waiting for Politico 2013-07-19 Anthea Butler, Associate Professor of Religion University of Pennsylvania President Obama’s surprise remarks Friday about Trayvon Martin, race in America and the Zimmerman trial will be remembered far longer than his “race” speech in March 2008 in Philadelphia. That speech, entitled “A More Perfect Union,”…