On June 17, 2015, a white supremacist entered Emanuel AME Church in
Charleston, South Carolina, 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, the church's pastor and South
Carolina state senator, Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney, 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. In the aftermath
of the massacre, Professors Chad Williams, Kidada Williams, and
Keisha N. Blain sought a way to put the murder-and the subsequent
debates about it in the media-in the context of America's
tumultuous history of race relations and racial violence on a
global scale. They created the Charleston Syllabus on June 19,
starting it as a hashtag on Twitter linking to scholarly works on
the myriad of issues related to the murder. The syllabus's
popularity exploded and is already being used as a key resource in
discussions of the event. Charleston Syllabus is a reader-a
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-history, sociology, urban studies, law,
critical race theory-and includes a selected and annotated
bibliography for further reading, drawing from such texts as the
Confederate constitution, South Carolina's 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 and its
ideals, the black church as a foundation for civil rights activity
and state violence against such activity, and critical whiteness
studies.
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