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Ebony in the Ivory Tower

Dismantling the Stronghold of Racial Inequality from the Inside Out

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Trayvon Martin, Race, and American Justice

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It is January 2012. In a discussion with psychology doctoral students and psychologists regarding President Obama, joy and pride, accompanied by the long-awaited ability to exhale, abounded. We finally had realized an American post-racial society.

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Gómez, J.M. (2014). Ebony in the Ivory Tower. 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_21

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