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Legacies of Fear: from Rodney King’s beating to Trayvon Martin’s death
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- Indiana University Press
- Issue 113, 2014
- pp. 137-143
- Article
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Laurence Ralph and Kerry Chance explore how blacks are construed by the American legal system as inherently problematic—their mere presence in public space an indication of wrong-doing. The authors draw comparisons between the Rodney King beating and Trayvon Martin’s murder, and introduce the following essays.