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Racial Profiling
by Alison Marie Behnke
Ages: 12+
Published: 2017
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books/Lerner
ISBN: 978-1-5124-0268-1
Keywords: White privilege, Profiling, Racism, Microaggression
Explore historical and contemporary perspectives in racial literacy, including prejudice and privilege, the criminal justice system, counter-terrorism, and Islamophobia. Concludes with calls for change.