Suspicion Nation

Author : Lisa Bloom
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781619024687

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Many thought the election of our first African American president put an end to the conversation about race in this country, and that America had moved into a post–racial era of equality and opportunity. Then, on the night of February 26, 2012, a black seventeen–year–old boy walking to a friend's home carrying only his cell phone, candy, and a fruit drink, was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch coordinator. And in July 2013, the trial of Zimmerman for murder captivated the public, as did his eventual acquittal. In her provocative and landmark book, Suspicion Nation, Lisa Bloom, who covered the trial from gavel to gavel, posits that none of this was a surprise: Our laws, culture, and blind spots created the conditions that led to Trayvon Martin's death, and made George Zimmerman's acquittal by far the most likely outcome. America today holds an unhealthy preoccupation with firearms that has led to the expansion of gun rights to surreal extremes. America now has not only the highest per capita gun ownership rate in the world (almost one gun per American), but the highest rate of gun deaths. Despite the strides America has made, fighting a bloody Civil War to end slavery, eradicating Jim Crow laws, teaching tolerance, and electing an African American president, racial inequality persists throughout our country, in employment, housing, education, the media, and most institutions. And perhaps most destructively of all, racial biases run deep in every level of our criminal justice system. Suspicion Nation captures a court system and a country conflicted and divided over issues of race, violence, and gun legislation.

Author : Lisa Bloom
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781619023918

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Suspicion Nation by Lisa Bloom Pdf

Many thought the election of our first African American president put an end to the conversation about race in this country, and that America had moved into a post–racial era of equality and opportunity. Then, on the night of February 26, 2012, a black seventeen–year–old boy walking to a friend's home carrying only his cell phone, candy, and a fruit drink, was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch coordinator. And in July 2013, the trial of Zimmerman for murder captivated the public, as did his eventual acquittal. In her provocative and landmark book, Suspicion Nation, Lisa Bloom, who covered the trial from gavel to gavel, posits that none of this was a surprise: Our laws, culture, and blind spots created the conditions that led to Trayvon Martin's death, and made George Zimmerman's acquittal by far the most likely outcome. America today holds an unhealthy preoccupation with firearms that has led to the expansion of gun rights to surreal extremes. America now has not only the highest per capita gun ownership rate in the world (almost one gun per American), but the highest rate of gun deaths. Despite the strides America has made, fighting a bloody Civil War to end slavery, eradicating Jim Crow laws, teaching tolerance, and electing an African American president, racial inequality persists throughout our country, in employment, housing, education, the media, and most institutions. And perhaps most destructively of all, racial biases run deep in every level of our criminal justice system. Suspicion Nation captures a court system and a country conflicted and divided over issues of race, violence, and gun legislation.

Author : Nicole Charles
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478022251

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Suspicion by Nicole Charles Pdf

In 2014 Barbados introduced a vaccine to prevent certain strains of the human papillomavirus (HPV) and reduce the risk of cervical cancer in young women. Despite the disproportionate burden of cervical cancer in the Caribbean, many Afro-Barbadians chose not to immunize their daughters. In Suspicion, Nicole Charles reframes Afro-Barbadian vaccine refusal from a question of hesitancy to one of suspicion. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, black feminist theory, transnational feminist studies and science and technology studies, Charles foregrounds Afro-Barbadians' gut feelings and emotions and the lingering trauma of colonial and biopolitical violence. She shows that suspicion, far from being irrational, is a fraught and generative affective orientation grounded in concrete histories of mistrust of government and coercive medical practices foisted on colonized peoples. By contextualizing suspicion within these longer cultural and political histories, Charles troubles traditional narratives of vaccine hesitancy while offering new entry points into discussions on racialized biopolitics, neocolonialism, care, affect, and biomedicine across the Black diaspora. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1356 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116499534

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Author : George Sirgiovanni
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1412817196

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An Undercurrent of Suspicion by George Sirgiovanni Pdf

The one period that most students of anti-Communism have ignored is the years of the Second World War, when the United States and the Soviet Union briefly stood together as allies against Nazi Germany. During this period, criticizing the Soviet Union and the Communist party abruptly went out of fashion. But even then, there were Americans who chose to be unfashionable. These leaders and opinion-makers are the subject of Sirgiovanni's An Undercurrent of Suspicion. This book demonstrates that the "undercurrent of suspicion" against the Soviet Union, and communism in general, was considerably stronger under World War II than many Americans realize or recall. Many long-time anti-communists refuse to go along with the quasi-official moratorium on criticizing America's Soviet ally, and although the war granted the Communist Party of the United States an unaccustomed degree of legitimacy, this was by no means universally conceded, either. The resilience of such attitudes n what surely were the most auspicious years of the U.S.-Soviet relations contributes to our understanding of why a far more virulent and widespread Cold War mentality of mistrust and hostility burst forth so soon after the Allied victory. Many issues that contributed to the Cold War had been raised during the alliance, such as the political and territorial makeup of Eastern Europe. Those who assumed that the U.S.S.R. could never be trusted to act in a spirit of justice and compassion included conservative politicians, anti-communist labor leaders, right-wing newsmen, Catholics and Protestant fundamentalists, and American Socialists-all of whom Sirigiovani discusses at length. These individuals also insisted that the domestic Communist movement, despite its "patriotic" wartime line, remained in the service of today's ally but tomorrow's probably adversary, Joseph Stalin's U.S.S.R. An Undercurrent of Suspicion will of considerable interest to anyone interested in communism ad anti-communism, American politics, and the history of ideas, especially as they relate to political issues. The general reader will the book provides a new dimension to the war years, and in so doing helps explain the deep background of the Cold War.

Author : Edward Cornelius Toune,Graeme Mercer Adam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015053666098

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Self Culture; a Monthly Devoted to the Interests of the Home University League by Edward Cornelius Toune,Graeme Mercer Adam Pdf

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : United States
ISBN : CHI:12995445

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The Congressional Globe by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : International relations
ISBN : UCBK:C109075034

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The United States and the United Nations Report Series by United States. Department of State Pdf

Author : Alexander Charles Ewald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UIUC:30112089332743

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“The” Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, K. G., and His Times by Alexander Charles Ewald Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : NYPL:33433100957251

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The Nation [Electronic Resource] by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry Ward Beecher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Christianity
ISBN : WISC:89092857077

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The Christian Union by Henry Ward Beecher Pdf

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382138349

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Junius Unmasked by Anonymous Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : United Nations. Conference of the Committee on Disarmament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105071210350

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Conference of the Eighteen-Nation Committee on Disarmament by United Nations. Conference of the Committee on Disarmament Pdf

Author : Naomi Zack
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190236953

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The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race by Naomi Zack Pdf

"The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race provides up-to-date explanation and analyses by leading scholars in African American philosophy and philosophy of race. Fifty-one original essays cover major topics from intellectual history to contemporary social controversies in this emerging philosophical subfield that supports demographic inclusion and emphasizes cultural relevance."--[Source inconnue]

Author : John Russell Rickford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000506990

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Speaking my Soul by John Russell Rickford Pdf

Speaking My Soul is the honest story of linguist John R. Rickford’s life from his early years as the youngest of ten children in Guyana to his status as Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Stanford, of the transformation of his identity from colored or mixed race in Guyana to black in the USA, and of his work championing Black Talk and its speakers. This is an inspiring story of the personal and professional growth of a black scholar, from his life as an immigrant to the USA to a world-renowned expert who has made a leading contribution to the study of African American life, history, language and culture. In this engaging memoir, Rickford recalls landmark events for his racial identity like being elected president of the Black Student Association at the University of California, Santa Cruz; learning from black expeditions to the South Carolina Sea Islands, Jamaica, Belize and Ghana; and meeting or interviewing civil rights icons like Huey P. Newton, Rosa Parks and South African Dennis Brutus. He worked with Rachel Jeantel, Trayvon Martin’s good friend, and key witness in the trial of George Zimmerman for his murder—Zimmerman’s exoneration sparked the Black Lives Matter movement. With a foreword by poet John Agard, this is the account of a former Director of African and African American Studies whose work has increased our understanding of the richness of African American language and our awareness of the education and criminal justice challenges facing African Americans. It is key reading for students and faculty in linguistics, mixed race studies, African American studies and social justice.