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Blacks, Immigrants and America

Coleman, Wanda | February 15, 1993 issue

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The article focuses on the murder of a child named Latasha Harlins. The price black girls pay for not conforming to white standards of physical beauty is extracted in monumental amounts, breathe to death. The author bends personalities and sometimes mutilate bodies, in defense. Incredibly, in one article Crystal Harlins, Latasha's mother, dead six years ago, was retroactively indicted, because of her boisterous behavior, for Latasha's death and for her own during an argument at an after-hours bar.

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BLACKS; HARLINS, Latasha; ETHNIC groups; ETHNOLOGY; MURDER; UNITED States
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