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20. See Jessica Glenza, “‘I Felt Like a Five-Year-Old Holding On to Hulk Hogan’: Darren Wilson in His Own Words,” Guardian, November 25, 2014, www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/nov/25/darren-wilson-testimony-ferguson-michael-brown.
21. See Robert L. Smith, “Census Shows Cleveland Is the Second-Poorest City in the United States,” Cleveland.com, January 12, 2019, www.cleveland.com/metro/2010/09/census_shows_cleveland_is_the.html.
22. See Rachel Dissell, “‘An Uphill Battle’: Lead Poisoning Stunts Students’ Learning while Cleveland Leaders Fail to Tackle Lingering Problem,” Cleveland.com, January 6, 2019, www.cleveland.com/metro/2019/01/an-uphill-battle-lead-poisoning-stunts-students-learning-while-cleveland-leaders-fail-to-tackle-lingering-problem.html.
Chapter 5: D*mb Smart
23. See Greg Toppo, “GAO Study: Segregation Worsening in U.S. Schools,” USA Today, May 17, 2016, www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/05/17/gao-study-segregation-worsening-us-schools/84508438/.
24. See Constance Grady, “I Tried to Write an Essay about Productivity in Quarantine. It Took Me a Month to Do It,” Vox, April 17, 2020, www.vox.com/culture/2020/4/17/21201878/quarantine-productivity-social-distancing-coronavirus-pandemic-covid-19-capitalism-ep-thompson.
25. See “Black Children Five Times More Likely Than White Youth to Be Incarcerated,” Equal Justice Initiative, September 14, 2017, https://eji.org/news/black-children-five-times-more-likely-than-whites-to-be-incarcerated/.
26. See Michael J. Dumas, “‘Losing an Arm’: Schooling as a Site of Black Suffering,” Race, Ethnicity and Education 17, no. 1 (2014): 1–29, https://eric.ed.gov/?q=Dumas&pg=3&id=EJ1025418.
27. See Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “Barack Obama’s Original Sin: America’s Post-Racial Illusion,” Guardian, January 13, 2017, www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/13/barack-obama-legacy-racism-criminal-justice-system.
Chapter 6: A Prayer for Limitlessness
28. See J. Crocker, B. Cornwell, and B. Major, “The Stigma of Overweight: Affective Consequences of Attributional Ambiguity,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 64, no. 1 (January 1993): 60–70, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8421252/.
Chapter 9: Representation Matters?
29. See Delano R. Franklin and Samuel W. Zwickel, “Legacy Admit Rate Five Times That of Non-Legacies, Court Docs Show,” Harvard Crimson, June 20, 2018, www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/6/20/admissions-docs-legacy/.
30. Frank B. Wilderson III, Red, White & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010), 11–12.
31. Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), 116–117.
Chapter 10: A Prayer for Choice
32. See Melissa Healy, “Scientists Find DNA Differences between Gay Men and Their Straight Twin Brothers,” Los Angeles Times, October 8, 2015, www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-genetic-homosexuality-nature-nurture-20151007-story.html.
Chapter 11: My Gender Is Black
33. Hortense J. Spillers, “Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book,” in “Culture and Countermemory: The ‘American’ Connection,” special issue, Diacritics 17, no. 2 (Summer 1987): 72.
34. See Jo Jones and William D. Mosher, Fathers’ Involvement with Their Children: United States, 2006–2010, National Health Statistics Report No. 71 (Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics, 2013), www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nhsr071.pdf.
35. See Cathy Cohen, “The Radical Potential of Queer? Twenty Years Later,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 25, no. 1 (January 2019): 140–144.
Chapter 14: A Prayer for Healing
36. See Nina Misuraca Ignaczak and Michael Hobbes, “Black People Are Dying of COVID-19 at Alarming Rates. Here’s Why,” Huffington Post, April 8, 2020, www.huffpost.com/entry/black-people-are-dying-of-covid-19-at-alarming-rates-heres-why_n_5e8cdb76c5b62459a930512a.
Chapter 15: Trigger Warning
37. See Mirror Memoirs, https://mirrormemoirs.com/.
38. See Carolyn M. West and Kalimah Johnson, Sexual Violence in the Lives of African American Women (National Resource Center on Domestic Violence, March 2013), https://vawnet.org/sites/default/files/materials/files/2016-09/AR_SVAAWomenRevised.pdf.
39. See Chelsea Hale and Meghan Matt, “The Intersection of Race and Rape Viewed through the Prism of a Modern-Day Emmett Till,” American Bar Association, July 16, 2019, www.americanbar.org/groups/litigation/committees/diversity-inclusion/articles/2019/summer2019-intersection-of-race-and-rape/.
40. See Julia Halloran McLaughlin, “Crime and Punishment: Teen Sexting in Context,” Penn State Law Review 115, no. 1 (2010): 135–181, www.pennstatelawreview.org/115/1/115%20Penn%20St.%20L.%20Rev.%20135.pdf.
41. See Jeremiah Agenyi, “Recidivism in the United States—an Overview,” Atlas Corps, May 31, 2017, https://atlascorps.org/recidivism-united-states-overview/.
42. See Christopher Coble, “How Often Do Rape Charges Lead to Sex Crime Convictions?,” FindLaw, July 28, 2017, https://blogs.findlaw.com/blotter/2017/07/how-often-do-rape-charges-lead-to-sex-crime-convictions.html.
Chapter 17: If We Must Die
43. See David R. Williams and Selina A. Mohammed, “Racism and Health I: Pathways and Scientific Evidence,” American Behavioral Scientist 57, no. 8 (August 2013): 1152–1173, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0002764213487340.
Chapter 19: Abolition
44. Jill Stauffer, Ethical Loneliness: The Injustice of Not Being Heard (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015), 125.
45. See Eliott C. McLaughlin, “Police Officers in the US Were Charged with More Than 400 Rapes over a 9-Year Period,” CNN, October 19, 2018, www.cnn.com/2018/10/19/us/police-sexual-assaults-maryland-scope/index.html; Michael Arntfield, “The Preferred Jobs of Serial Killers: Aircraft Machinist, Arborist, General Labourer and Cop,” Maclean’s, May 9, 2018, www.macleans.ca/society/the-preferred-jobs-of-serial-killers-aircraft-machinist-arborist-general-labourer-and-cop/; and Matthew Spina, “When a Protector Becomes a Predator,” November 22, 2015, https://s3.amazonaws.com/bncore/projects/abusing-the-law/index.html?fbclid=IwAR3JX9zOrThZTdr9CpBMwvrSJ6soVRLT_dj_9i7K99AbY5PVuyuagrGyu6o.
46. See Amber Butts, “No One Is Obligated to Remain: Consent, Agency and Supporting Loved Ones Who Want to Let Go,” RaceBaitr, September 26, 2018, https://racebaitr.com/2018/09/26/no-one-is-obligated-to-remain-consent-agency-supporting-loved-ones-who-want-to-let-go/.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Hari Ziyad is a cultural critic, a screenwriter, and the editor in chief of RaceBaitr. They are a 2021 Lambda Literary Fellow, and their writing has been featured in BuzzFeed, Out, the Guardian, Paste magazine, and the academic journal Critical Ethnic Studies, among other publications. Previously they were the managing editor of the Black Youth Project and a script consultant on the television series David Makes Man. Hari spends their all-too-rare free time trying to get their friends to give the latest generation of R & B starlets a chance and attempting to entertain their always very unbothered pit bull mix, Khione. For more information about the author, visit www.hariziyad.com.