Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence [Hardcover]

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.

An essential overview of race relations, racial violence, and civil rights activism in the United States and other parts of the globeA signal contribution, this timely volume provides the central historical and contemporary contexts for teachers, students, and the general public seeking to understand the tragic events in Charleston in 2015. Building on the possibilities inherent in digital crowd-sourcing, Charleston Syllabus inaugurates a new model of engagement between academia and the general public around the most pressing issues of our time.Do inflamed emergencies tend to produce innovative scholarly responses? Even a glancing perusal of this enlightening and brilliant response to the Charleston massacre of 2015 leads inexorably to an emphatic answer: yes! These diligent scholars provide eye-opening historical and contemporary chapters that shed light on why this tragedy occurred—and what must be done to ensure that it will not recur.This thoroughly remarkable compelóS