{"id":44207,"date":"2016-05-09T01:06:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T01:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44207"},"modified":"2016-11-09T17:26:38","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T17:26:38","slug":"charleston-syllabus-readings-on-race-racism-and-racial-violence%ef%bb%bf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44207","title":{"rendered":"Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

University of Georgia Press<\/a>
\nMay 2016
\n336 pages
\nTrim size: 6 x 9
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0-8203-4956-5
\nPaper ISBN: 978-0-8203-4957-2
\nAuthor Website<\/a><\/p>\n

Edited by:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chad Williams<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of African & Afro-American Studies
\nBrandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts<\/em><\/p>\n

Kidada E. Williams<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of History
\nWayne State University, Detroit, Michgan<\/em><\/p>\n

Keisha N. Blain<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of History
\nUniversity of Iowa<\/em><\/p>\n

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On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist<\/a> entered Emanuel AME Church<\/a> in Charleston, South Carolina<\/a>, and sat with some of its parishioners during a Wednesday night Bible study session. An hour later, he began expressing his hatred for African Americans, and soon after, he shot nine church members dead<\/a>, the church\u2019s pastor and South Carolina<\/a> state senator, Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney<\/a>, among them. The ensuing manhunt for the shooter and investigation of his motives revealed his beliefs in white supremacy and reopened debates about racial conflict, southern identity, systemic racism, civil rights, and the African American church as an institution.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of the massacre, Professors Chad Williams, Kidada Williams, and Keisha N. Blain sought a way to put the murder\u2014and the subsequent debates about it in the media\u2014in the context of America\u2019s tumultuous history of race relations and racial violence on a global scale. They created the Charleston Syllabus<\/a> on June 19, starting it as a hashtag<\/a> on Twitter<\/a> linking to scholarly works on the myriad of issues related to the murder. The syllabus\u2019s<\/a> popularity exploded and is already being used as a key resource in discussions of the event.<\/p>\n

Charleston Syllabus<\/em> is a reader\u2014a collection of new essays and columns published in the wake of the massacre, along with selected excerpts from key existing scholarly books and general-interest articles. The collection draws from a variety of disciplines\u2014history, sociology, urban studies, law, critical race theory<\/a>\u2014and includes a selected and annotated bibliography for further reading, drawing from such texts as the Confederate constitution<\/a>, South Carolina\u2019s secession declaration, songs, poetry, slave narratives, and literacy texts. As timely as it is necessary, the book will be a valuable resource for understanding the roots of American systemic racism, white privilege, the uses and abuses of the Confederate flag<\/a> and its ideals, the black church as a foundation for civil rights activity and state violence against such activity, and critical whiteness studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence University of Georgia Press May 2016 336 pages Trim size: 6 x 9 Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-8203-4956-5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-8203-4957-2 Author Website Edited by: Chad Williams, Associate Professor of African & Afro-American Studies Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts Kidada E. Williams, Associate Professor of History Wayne State University, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11,8413,459,1467,1196,8,23674,394,20],"tags":[22020,22023,22022,22024,22021,463],"class_list":["post-44207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthologies","category-books","category-communications","category-history","category-law","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-chad-williams","tag-keisha-blain","tag-keisha-n-blain","tag-kidada-e-williams","tag-kidada-williams","tag-university-of-georgia-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46882,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44207\/revisions\/46882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}