Charleston syllabus readings on race, racism, and racial violence

"A collection of new essays and columns published in the wake of the 2015 Charleston, SC, massacre, along with excerpts from key scholarly books. It draws from a variety of disciplines--history, sociology, urban studies, law, critical race theory--and includes discussion questions and a selecte...

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Other Authors: Williams, Chad Louis, 1976- (Editor), Williams, Kidada E. (Editor), Blain, Keisha N., 1985- (Editor)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Athens : The University of Georgia Press, 2016.
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Summary: "A collection of new essays and columns published in the wake of the 2015 Charleston, SC, massacre, along with excerpts from key scholarly books. It draws from a variety of disciplines--history, sociology, urban studies, law, critical race theory--and includes discussion questions and a selected and annotated bibliography for further reading"--Amazon.com.
Physical Description: ix, 351 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9780820349572
0820349577
Author Notes: Chad Williams (Editor)
CHAD WILLIAMS is an associate professor and chair of African and Afro-American studies at Brandeis University and is the author of Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era.

Kidada Williams (Editor)
KIDADA E. WILLIAMS is an associate professor of history at Wayne State University and the author of They Left Great Marks on Me: African American Testimonies of Racial Violence from Emancipation to World War I.

Keisha Blain (Editor)
KEISHA N. BLAIN is assistant professor of history at the University of Iowa. Her work has been published in the Journal of Social History; Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society ; and Palimpsest: A Journal on Women, Gender, and the Black International.