Racial profiling–the so-called “Kavanaugh Stop”–catches its victims in a Catch-22.
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Tag Archives: racial profiling
Racial Profiling in LA? Call in Brecht
The rightwing justices on the Supreme Court have just greenlit racial profiling. Brecht would have something to say about that.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged Bertolt Brecht, Brett Kavanagh, Exception and the Rule, SCOTUS, Sonia Sotomayor Comments closed
Vague Identity Adjectives Killed Trayvon
Novelist Susan Bender says that a literary understanding would have prevented the Trayvon Martin killing.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged George Zimmerman, Goodbye Columbus, Invisible Man, Philip Roth, Ralph Ellison, Trayvon Martin Comments closed
Trayvon Was an Invisible Man
The racial profiling at the heart of the Trayvon Martin killing is captured nowhere better than in Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man.”
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged George Zimmerman, Invisible Man, racism, Ralph Ellison, Trayvon Martin Comments closed