In his Huffington Post blog, Elijah Anderson discusses to what degree social attitudes toward race have changed in the nearly sixty year period marking the murder of two African American teenage boys, 14-year old Emmett Till in Mississippi in 1955 and the killing of 17-year old Trayvon Martin in Florida in 2012–“Emmett and Trayvon: How Racial Prejudice Has Changed in the Last 60 Years,” Posted Feb. 28, 2013, 4:13pm
View Elijah Anderson’s faculty page: http://afamstudies.yale.edu/faculty/elijah-anderson
Monday, March 4, 2013