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“When Saying You Care Ain’t Really Caring”

Emotions of Disgust, Whiteness Ideology and Teacher Education1 (with Michalinos Zembylas)

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In the wake of the not guilty verdict in the U.S. murder trial of Trayvon Martin, Juror B37, a White female, appeared on CNN’s Anderson 360 to describe her thought process during deliberation. Responding to the credibility of the testimony of Rachel Jeantel, an African American teenage female, Juror B37 stated, “I don’t think it was very credible … because of her education and her communication skills. She wasn’t a good witness.”

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Matias, C.E. (2016). “When Saying You Care Ain’t Really Caring”. In: Feeling White. Cultural Pluralism Democracy, Socio-environmental justice & Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-450-3_3

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