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Title The assault on communities of color : exploring the realities of race-based violence / Kenneth Fasching-Varner, Nicholas Daniel Hartlep (eds).

Publication Info. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.

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Physical Medium polychrome
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Contents The mythical post-racial America -- Racism and violence against minority and minoritized communities -- The black male experience in the United States.
Summary "The United States is not post-racial, despite claims otherwise. The days of lynching have been replaced with a pernicious modern racism and race-based violence equally strong and more difficult to untangle. This violence too often results in the killing of Black Americans, particularly males. While society may believe we have transcended race, contemporary history tells another story with the recent killings of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and others. While their deaths are tragic, the greater tragedy is that incidents making the news are only a fraction of the assault on communities of color in. This volume takes seriously the need for concentrated and powerful dialogue to emerge in the wake of these murders that illuminates the assault in a powerful and provocative way. Through a series of essays, written by leading and emerging academics in the field of race studies, the short "conversations" in this collection challenge readers to contemplate the myth of post-raciality, and the real nature of the assaults on communities of color. The essays in this volume, all under 2000 words, cut to the heart of the matter using current assaults as points of departure and is relevant to education, sociology, law, social work, and criminology."-- Provided by the publisher.
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Subject Racism -- United States.
Racism.
United States.
Social justice -- United States.
Social justice.
Sociological jurisprudence -- United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
Sociological jurisprudence.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Subject Racism.
Added Author Fasching-Varner, Kenneth, editor.
Hartlep, Nicholas Daniel, editor.
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