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Title Charleston syllabus : readings on race, racism, and racial violence / edited by Chad Williams, Kidada E. Williams, and Keisha N. Blain.

Publication Info. Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2016]

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  305.8 CHARLESTON    Check Shelf
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Description ix, 351 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Part I. Slavery, survival, and community building / Kidada E. Williams -- "An address to the slaves of the United States" / Henry Highland Garnet -- From life and adventures of Charles Ball / Charles Ball -- From incidents in the life of a slave girl / Harriet Jacobs -- "Roll Jordan roll" / adapted by Nicholas Britell -- "I've been in the storm so long" -- "Before Charleston's church shooting, a long history of attacks" / Douglas R. Egerton -- "The first attack on Charleston's AME Church" / Maurie McInnis -- From "sweet dreams of freedom': freedwomen's reconstruction of life and labor in lowcountry South Carolina" / Leslie Schwalm -- From soul by soul: life inside the antebellum slave market / Walter Johnson -- From saltwater slavery: a middle passage from Africa to American diaspora / Stephanie E. Smallwood -- From in the shadow of slavery: African Americans in New York City, 1626-1863 / Leslie M. Harris -- Part II. Religious life, spirituality, and racial identity / Keisha N. Blain -- From religious experience and journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee, giving an account of her call to preach the gospel / Jarena Lee -- "Amazing grace" / John Newton -- "Love and terror in the Black church" / Michael Eric Dyson -- "The long and proud history of Charleston's AME Church" / Manisha Sinha -- "The condition of Black life is one of mourning" / Claudia Rankine -- From African American religion: a very short introduction / Eddie S. Glaude -- From "bitter herbs and a lock of hair: recollections of Africa in slave narratives of the Garrisonian era" / Jermaine O. Archer -- From Islam in Black America: identity, liberation, and difference in African American Islamic thought / Edward Curtis -- From God's long summer: stories of faith and civil rights / Charles Marsh -- From songs of Zion: the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa / James Campbell -- Part III. The Civil War and Reconstruction in history and memory / Kidada E. Williams -- "The Civil Rights Bill": extracts from a speech delivered in the House of Representatives / Robert Brown Elliot -- "Declaration of the immediate causes which induce and justify the secession of South Carolina from the federal union" -- From "The Constitution of the Confederate States" / with annotations by Stephanie McCurry -- "Corner stone speech" / Alexander H. Stephens -- "No more auction block for me" / Gustavus D. Pike -- From "A second Haitian revolution: John Brown, Toussaint Louverture, and the making of the American Civil War" / Matthew Clavin -- From Black over White: Negro political leadership in South Carolina during Reconstruction / Thomas C. Holt -- From to joy my freedom: southern Black womens' lives and labors after the Civil War / Tera W. Hunter -- From Confederate reckoning: power and politics in the Civil War south / Stephanie McCurry -- From terror in the heart of freedom: citizenship, sexual violence, and the meaning of race in the post-emancipation south / Hannah Rosen -- Part IV. Jim Crow, racial politics, and global White supremacy / Kidada E. Williams -- From Plessy v. Ferguson / Supreme Court of the United States (163 U.S. 537) -- 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 -- "Call to the march" / Asa Philip Randolph -- From "The souls of White folk" / W.E.B. Du Bois -- From a red record / Ida B. Wells-Barnett -- "If we must die" / Claude McKay -- "Strange fruit" / Abel Meeropol and Billie Holliday -- "Rhodesian flag, Confederate flag: roof and the legacies of racial hate" / Benjamin Foldy -- From southern horrors: women and the politics of rape and lynching / Crystal N. Feimster -- From "We are not what we seem': rethinking Black working-class opposition in the Jim Crow south" / Robin D.G. Kelley -- 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 -- From the possessive investment in whiteness: how White people profit from identity politics / George Lipsitz -- "Blackness beyond boundaries': navigating the political economies of global inequality" / Manning Marable -- Part V. Civil rights and Black power / Chad Williams -- "Testimony before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey" / Fannie Lou Hamer -- "We shall overcome" -- "Mississippi Goddam" / Nina Simone -- "The Black agenda -- Gary declaration: Black politics at the crossroads" / National Black Political Convention -- "Is it time to reevaluate the church's role in the civil rights movement?" / Robin Blake -- "More than a seat on the bus" / Danielle McGuire -- 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 -- From "could history repeat itself? the prospects for a second reconstruction in post-World War II South Carolina" / Robert Korstad -- From up south: civil rights and Black power in Philadelphia / Matthew Countryman -- From we will shoot back: armed resistance in the Mississippi freedom movement / Akinyele Umoja -- Part VI. Contemporary perspectives on race and racial violence / Chad Williams -- "Remarks by the president in eulogy for the honorable Reverend Clementa Pinckney, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina" / Barack Obama -- "The blacker the berry" / Kendrick Lamar -- From "Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department" / United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division -- "Speech on Walter Scott shooting" / Clementa Pinckney -- "Black bodies, White terrorism: a global reimagining of forgiveness" / Esther Armah -- "Ella taught me: shattering the myth of the leaderless movement" / Barbara Ransby -- "On the pole for freedom: Bree Newsome's politics, theory, and theology of resistance" / Brittney Cooper -- From hate thy neighbor: move in violence and the persistence of racial segregation in housing / Jeannine Bell -- From Charleston in Black and White: race and power in the south after the civil rights movement / Steve Estes -- From not even past: Barack Obama and the burden of race / Thomas Sugrue -- From "African American women, mass incarceration, and the politics of protection" / Kali Nicole Gross.
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.
Subject United States -- Race relations -- History.
Racism -- United States -- History.
African Americans -- History.
African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Williams, Chad L. (Chad Louis), 1976- editor.
Williams, Kidada E., editor.
Blain, Keisha N., 1985- editor.
ISBN 9780820349565 hardcover ; alkaline paper
0820349569 hardcover ; alkaline paper
9780820349572 paperback ; alkaline paper
0820349577 paperback ; alkaline paper
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