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“I Don’t Think He Knows about it”/”He was Outraged

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Trayvon Martin, Race, and American Justice

Part of the book series: Teaching Race and Ethnicity ((RACE))

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When Trayvon Martin was killed, I was conducting a two-year ethnographic study of how white children come to understand race, racism, and racial privilege in America (see Hagerman, 2013).

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  1. Margaret Ann Hagerman
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  2. Eric D. Vivier
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA

    Kenneth J. Fasching-Varner

  2. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

    Rema E. Reynolds

  3. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

    Katrice A. Albert

  4. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA

    Lori L. Martin

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Hagerman, M.A., Vivier, E.D. (2014). “I Don’t Think He Knows about it”/”He was Outraged. In: Fasching-Varner, K.J., Reynolds, R.E., Albert, K.A., Martin, L.L. (eds) Trayvon Martin, Race, and American Justice. Teaching Race and Ethnicity. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-842-8_14

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