Charleston syllabus
Subtitle: readings on race, racism, and racial violence
By: edited by Chad Williams, Kidada E. Williams, and Keisha N. Blain
Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780820349572; 9780820349565
Subjects: Race relations; African Americans; Racism; History
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Slavery, survival, and community building  -- Kidada E. Williams; title: "An address to the slaves of the United States"  -- Henry Highland Garnet; title: From life and adventures of Charles Ball  -- Charles Ball; title: From incidents in the life of a slave girl  -- Harriet Jacobs; title: "Roll Jordan roll"  -- adapted by Nicholas Britell; title: "I've been in the storm so long" --; title: "Before Charleston's church shooting, a long history of attacks"  -- Douglas R. Egerton; title: "The first attack on Charleston's AME Church"  -- Maurie McInnis; title: From "sweet dreams of freedom': freedwomen's reconstruction of life and labor in lowcountry South Carolina"  -- Leslie Schwalm; title: From soul by soul: life inside the antebellum slave market  -- Walter Johnson; title: From saltwater slavery: a middle passage from Africa to American diaspora  -- Stephanie E. Smallwood; title: From in the shadow of slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863  -- Leslie M. Harris; title: Part II. Religious life, spirituality, and racial identity  -- Keisha N. Blain; title: From religious experience and journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee, giving an account of her call to preach the gospel  -- Jarena Lee; title: "Amazing grace"  -- John Newton; title: "Love and terror in the Black church"  -- Michael Eric Dyson; title: "The long and proud history of Charleston's AME Church"  -- Manisha Sinha; title: "The condition of Black life is one of mourning"  -- Claudia Rankine; title: From African American religion: a very short introduction  -- Eddie S. Glaude; title: From "bitter herbs and a lock of hair: recollections of Africa in slave narratives of the Garrisonian era"  -- Jermaine O. Archer; title: From Islam in Black America: identity, liberation, and difference in African American Islamic thought  -- Edward Curtis; title: From God's long summer: stories of faith and civil rights  -- Charles Marsh; title: From songs of Zion: the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa  -- James Campbell; title: Part III. The Civil War and Reconstruction in history and memory  -- Kidada E. Williams; title: "The Civil Rights Bill": extracts from a speech delivered in the House of Representatives  -- Robert Brown Elliot; title: "Declaration of the immediate causes which induce and justify the secession of South Carolina from the federal union" --; title: From "The Constitution of the Confederate States"  -- with annotations by Stephanie McCurry; title: "Corner stone speech"  -- Alexander H. Stephens; title: "No more auction block for me"  -- Gustavus D. Pike; title: From "A second Haitian revolution: John Brown, Toussaint Louverture, and the making of the American Civil War"  -- Matthew Clavin; title: From Black over White: Negro political leadership in South Carolina during Reconstruction  -- Thomas C. Holt; title: From to joy my freedom: southern Black womens' lives and labors after the Civil War  -- Tera W. Hunter; title: From Confederate reckoning: power and politics in the Civil War south  -- Stephanie McCurry; title: From terror in the heart of freedom: citizenship, sexual violence, and the meaning of race in the post-emancipation south  -- Hannah Rosen; title: Part IV. Jim Crow, racial politics, and global White supremacy  -- Kidada E. Williams; title: From Plessy v. Ferguson  -- Supreme Court of the United States (163 U.S. 537); title: From "Declaration of the rights of the Negro peoples of the world: the principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association"  -- Marcus Garvey and the UNIA; title: "Call to the march"  -- Asa Philip Randolph; title: From "The souls of White folk"  -- W.E.B. Du Bois; title: From a red record  -- Ida B. Wells-Barnett; title: "If we must die"  -- Claude McKay; title: "Strange fruit"  -- Abel Meeropol and Billie Holliday; title: "Rhodesian flag, Confederate flag: roof and the legacies of racial hate"  -- Benjamin Foldy; title: From southern horrors: women and the politics of rape and lynching  -- Crystal N. Feimster; title: From "We are not what we seem': rethinking Black working-class opposition in the Jim Crow south"  -- Robin D.G. Kelley; title: From "to speak when and where I can': African American women's political activism in South Carolina in the 1940s and 1950s"  -- Cherisse Jones-Branch; title: From the possessive investment in whiteness: how White people profit from identity politics  -- George Lipsitz; title: "Blackness beyond boundaries': navigating the political economies of global inequality"  -- Manning Marable; title: Part V. Civil rights and Black power  -- Chad Williams; title: "Testimony before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey"  -- Fannie Lou Hamer; title: "We shall overcome" --; title: "Mississippi Goddam"  -- Nina Simone; title: "The Black agenda --; title: Gary declaration: Black politics at the crossroads"  -- National Black Political Convention; title: "Is it time to reevaluate the church's role in the civil rights movement?"  -- Robin Blake; title: "More than a seat on the bus"  -- Danielle McGuire; title: From "Joanne is you and Joanne is me': a consideration of african american women and the 'free joan little' movement, 1974-75"  -- Genna Rae McNeil; title: From "could history repeat itself? the prospects for a second reconstruction in post-World War II South Carolina"  -- Robert Korstad; title: From up south: civil rights and Black power in Philadelphia  -- Matthew Countryman; title: From we will shoot back: armed resistance in the Mississippi freedom movement  -- Akinyele Umoja; title: Part VI. Contemporary perspectives on race and racial violence  -- Chad Williams; title: "Remarks by the president in eulogy for the honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina"  -- Barack Obama; title: "The blacker the berry"  -- Kendrick Lamar; title: From "Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department"  -- United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division; title: "Speech on Walter Scott shooting"  -- Clementa Pinckney; title: "Black bodies, White terrorism: a global reimagining of forgiveness"  -- Esther Armah; title: "Ella taught me: shattering the myth of the leaderless movement"  -- Barbara Ransby; title: "On the pole for freedom: Bree Newsome's politics, theory, and theology of resistance"  -- Brittney Cooper; title: From hate thy neighbor: move in violence and the persistence of racial segregation in housing  -- Jeannine Bell; title: From Charleston in Black and White: race and power in the south after the civil rights movement  -- Steve Estes; title: From not even past: Barack Obama and the burden of race  -- Thomas Sugrue; title: From "African American women, mass incarceration, and the politics of protection" -- Kali Nicole Gross.