An edition of Charleston syllabus
(2016)
Charleston syllabus
readings on race, racism, and racial violence
by Chad Louis Williams, Kidada E. Williams, and Keisha N. Blain
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"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.
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Charleston syllabus: readings on race, racism, and racial violence
2016
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Table of 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.
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