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On the night of February 26, 2012, Trayvon Martin, a then seventeen-year old Black teenage male was shot to death in Sanford, Florida. We came to learn that Martin, unarmed and carrying only a bag of Skittles and an iced tea, was shot dead by George Zimmerman, a then 28-year-old, white Latino male of Peruvian heritage who served as a neighborhood watch volunteer.
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Fasching-Varner, K.J., Martin, L.L., Albert, K.A., Reynolds, R.E. (2014). Introduction. 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_1
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