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The Presumption of White Innocence
- American Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 66, Number 4, December 2014
- pp. 1085-1090
- 10.1353/aq.2014.0078
- Article
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Abstract
This essay considers how “the presumption of innocence” in self-defense cases not only functions through whiteness but also normalizes violence against the black and/or brown body. Consequentially, “the presumption of innocence” renders black victimhood and black innocence illegible.
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