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<span><span>The Assault on Communities of Color</span><span> provides a critical look at issues such as racism, community segregation, whiteness and other hegemonies and how they re/produce injustice and violence; but also how space, place, and institutionalism produce and maintain white dominance and violence. This is the right volume during a time of wrongs.</span></span>
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<span><span>(Foreword) Rick Ayers &amp; William Ayers Breathe: Notes On White Supremacy and The Fierce Urgency Of Now</span></span>
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<span><span>(Poem) Lillie Lindsay: Red Riding Hoodie</span></span>
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<span><span>(Introduction) Lori L. Martin, Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner, Nicholas D. Hartlep, Cleveland Hayes, Roland W. Mitchell, &amp; Chaunda M. Allen-Mitchell - </span><span>By Means of Introduction: An Open Letter</span></span>
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<span><span> (Poem) Bryce Davis Bohon - Peace: A 6 Year Old St. Louisan Speaks</span></span>
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<span><span>Section 1: The Mythical Post-Racial America</span></span>
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<span><span>1. Jason Irizary &amp; Jonathan Rosa - </span><span>Complicating Black and Brown Solidarity:</span><span>Racial Positioning and Re-Positioning in “Post-Racial America”</span></span>
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<span><span>2. Brad Kershner - The Opposite Of A Great Lie: Racism, Capitalism, and Education Policy Knowing Our History</span></span>
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<span><span>3. René Antrop-González: Apartheid and Symbolic Violence in The New Latin@ South: Reflections and Implications </span></span>
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<span><span>4. Chezare A. Warren - I Get Angry: The Quandary of Postracialism</span></span>
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<span><span>5. Paul Gorski - Ferguson and The Violence of “It’s-All-About-Me” White Liberalism </span></span>
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<span><span>6. Dana L. Bickmore - “I Need To Check With Corporate” </span></span>
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<span><span>7. Leigh Jefferson Griffin - Skittles, Arizona Iced Tea, and Cigarettes: The Price of Black Lives in A “Post-Racial” America</span></span>
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<span><span>8. Amanda R. Martinez &amp; Robert Gutierrez-Perez - Are We Post-Post-Race Yet?: Moving Beyond The Black-White Binary Towards a Mestiza/O Consciousness</span></span>
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<span><span>9. Melinda Jackson &amp; Dari Green - Contradicting Realities in The Mythical Post Racial: America Blinded to Matters of Color? </span></span>
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<span><span>10. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor - What Divides Black America? </span></span>
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<span><span>Section 2: Racism &amp; Violence Against Minority and Minoritized Communities</span></span>
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<span><span> 11. David O. Stovall - Normalizing Black Death: Michael Brown, Marissa Alexander, Dred Scott and the Apartheid State </span></span>
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<span><span>12. Christine Sleeter - Viewing Barack Obama Through Racist Stereotypes</span></span>
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<span><span>13. Cheryl Matias &amp; Roberto Montoya - </span><span>When Michael’s Death Means Our Own Children’s Death:</span><span>Critical Race Parenting in A Time of Racial Extermination</span></span>
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<span><span>14. Reanna S. Roby &amp; Theodorea Regina Berry - Respectability Politics and Acts Of Violence</span></span>
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<span><span>15. Horace R. Hall - Countering Postcolonial Assaults on Black American Life</span></span>
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<span><span>16. Subini Ancy Annamma - We Can’t Breathe: The Impacts of Police Brutality on Women of Color</span></span>
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<span><span>17. Susan Anne Cridland-Hughes &amp; Lagarrett J. King - Killing Me Softly: How Violence Comes From the Curriculum We Teach </span></span>
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<span><span>18. Robin Diangelo - </span><span>The Sketch Factor: “Bad Neighborhood” Narratives As Discursive Violence</span></span>
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<span><span>19. Dewey M. Clayton - Racial Justice in America: Alternative Universes</span></span>
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<span><span>20. Lisa B. Haileab And Ivory A. Toldson - The Death of Amir De’Mani Brooks: Counseling Psychologists Response To Racism and Violence Against Black Communities</span></span>
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<span><span>Section 3: The Black Male Experience in The United States</span></span>
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<span><span> 21. Donna Y. Ford – Save Our Black Males: I Should Not Have to Celebrate That My Son Lived to See the Age of 35</span></span>
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<span><span>22. Howard C. Stevenson &amp; Kelsey Jones - What if My Trayvon Came Home? Teaching a Wretched Truth About Breathing While Black</span></span>
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<span><span>23. Larry C. Bryant - Gone In 90 Seconds: A Black Male Body – Normalcy, Never Again</span></span>
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<span><span>24. Cassandra D. Chaney - Michael Brown and The Shared Ambivalence of Black And Brown America</span></span>
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<span><span>25. Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers - Echoes of ‘People Stealers:’ Trauma Revisited</span></span>
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<span><span>26. Lori Martin &amp; Jahaan Chandler - And to Make Matters Worse</span></span>
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<span><span>27. Cleveland Hayes - And You Wonder Why I Am An Angry Black Man</span></span>
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<span><span>28. Roderick L. Carey - Desensationalizing Black Males: Navigating and Deconstructing Extreme Imageries Of Black Males and Masculinities</span><span> </span></span>
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<span><span>29. Donna </span><span>Vukelich-Selva</span><span> – If The System’s Broke…</span></span>
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<span><span>30. Joni Boyd Acuff - Grey Hoodies, Baggy Jeans And Brown Skin: The Violence Against Black Males Via Signs and Signifiers</span></span>
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<span><span>Section 4: The Fight For Equity: Communities Speak Up And Out</span></span>
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<span><span> 31. Paul D. Grant &amp; Carl A/ Grant - To Be Men And Women: The Black Struggle For Justice Continues</span></span>
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<span><span>32. Lisa (Leigh) Patel - </span><span>Educational Research and Institutionalized Oppression</span></span>
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<span><span>33. Audrey Lensmire - Necessary and Insufficient: Teaching and Writing in a Violent World</span></span>
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<span><span>34. Christine Clark - The Insidiousness of Indifference to Black Injury in White America</span></span>
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<span><span>35. Enrique Alemán, Jr. – </span><span>Resisting the De-Humanization of Youth of Color: On The Death of Big Mike, “Illegal” Your Leaders and Proud Utes</span></span>
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<span><span>36. Danielle Joy Davis, Christopher Aaron Deans, Jason S. Davis, Linda M. Davis, &amp; Eilleen Buckner - A Call for Compassion: An African American St. Louis Family’s Reflections on Ferguson</span></span>
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<span><span>37. Adonay A. Montes - Living the Silence: An Impediment to Culture and Equity</span></span>
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<span><span>38. Isaac M. Carter - New-Freedom School Movement</span></span>
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<span><span>39. Rochelle Brock - Dreaming Of Revolution: My Struggle To Understand The Assault On Blackness</span></span>
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<span><span>40. Shirley R. Steinberg - Postmodern Fire Hoses: Media Recollections From Southern California</span></span>
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<span><span>This volume provides a concentrated and powerful dialogue in the wake of recent murders of young Black males and assaults on communities of color. Through a series of conversation starters, written by leading and emerging academics in the field of race studies, the short essays in this collection challenge readers to contemplate the myth of post-raciality and the real nature of the assaults on communities of color. <br></span></span>
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<span><span>Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner</span><span>, Shirley B. Barton Endowed Professor, College of Human Sciences and Education, Louisiana State University</span></span>
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<span><span><br></span><span>Nicholas D. Hartlep</span><span>, Assistant Professor, College of Education, College of Education, Illinois State University</span></span>
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<span><span>Lori L. Martin</span><span>, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, College of Humanities &amp; Social Sciences, Louisiana State University</span></span>
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<span><span>Cleveland Hayes</span><span>, Associate Professor, College of Education and Organizational Leadership, University of Laverne</span></span>
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<span><span>Roland W. Mitchell</span><span>, Interim Associate Dean and Associate Professor, College of Human Sciences and Education, Louisiana State University</span></span>
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<span><span><br></span><span>Chaunda M. Allen-Mitchell</span><span>, Director Office of Multicultural Affairs, Louisiana State University</span></span>
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