Can't We Be Your Neighbor? Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, and the Resistance to Blacks as Neighbors

Jeannine Bell

Can't We Be Your Neighbor? Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, and the Resistance to Blacks as Neighbors

Jeannine Bell

Indiana University Maurer School of Law

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Abstract

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 paved the way for the Fair Housing Act of 1968, which was designed to address discrimination in one of our most intimate space — neighborhoods. Fifty-six years after the passage of the Fair Housing Act, Americans remain fiercely resistant to the concept of neighborhood integration. This Article uses an unlikely event, the killing of Trayvon Martin, to discuss one manifestation of that resistance with disturbing implications.

Original language	American English
Pages (from-to)	851-71
Number of pages	21
Journal	Boston University Law Review
Volume	95
Issue number	3
State	Published - 2015
Externally published	Yes

Bibliographical note

Jeannine Bell, Can't We Be Your Neighbor? Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, and the Resistance to Blacks as Neighbors, 95 B.U. L. Rev. 851 (2015).

Disciplines

Civil Rights and Discrimination
Housing Law

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Can't We Be Your Neighbor? Trayvon Martin, George Zimmerman, and the Resistance to Blacks as Neighbors

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