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Double Consciousness, Codeswitching, and Negotiating Multiple Identities

 Double consciousness from DuBoisopedia

http://scua.library.umass.edu/duboisopedia/doku.php?id=about:double_consciousness

 Learning How To Code-Switch: Humbling, But Necessary
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/04/10/176234171/learning-how-to-code-switch-humbling-but-necessary

 American Promise: Idris Codeswitches

http://www.pbs.org/pov/americanpromise/video/idris-code-switches/

 Being Black—but Not Too Black—in the Workplace
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/being-black-work/409990/

Media Representations of Fatal Police Shooting of African Americans

OpEd: How the media smears black victims

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-johnson-black-victim-20170330-story.html

 When a police shooting victim is a white woman
https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/7/24/16019440/justine-damond-police-shooting-race

The conversation we need on police shootings
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/27/opinions/law-enforcement-racism-opinion-gagliano/index.html

The Complexity of Gang Culture and the Difficulty of Leaving a Gang

 How do you leave a gang?
http://www.newsweek.com/how-do-you-leave-gang-82499

 Gangs: Once a member, it is difficult to get out
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/gangs-once-a-member-it-is-difficult-to-get-out/

Excerpt from “Violent Stories: Personal Narratives, Street Socialization, and the Negotiation of Street Culture Among Street-Oriented Youth”
http://www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/ViolentStoriesReading.pdf

 Gang Culture

http://people.missouristate.edu/MichaelCarlie/what_I_learned_about/gangs/culture.htm