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The once gilded path from law school student to wealthy lawyer has
all but vanished. More importantly, many lawyers who are
"successful" by traditional standards are absolutely miserable in
the profession and want to find a way out. In Escape the Law, Chad
Williams provides engaging and inspiring profiles of nearly 60
individuals who successfully made the transition from law to
business. Escape the Law helps aspiring and practicing legal
professionals find greater professional satisfaction through
entrepreneurship and is an absolute must read for anyone
considering law school, in law school, or disenchanted with the
profession and seeking a way out.
Days before Chad Williams was to report to military duty in Great
Lakes, Illinois, he turned on a television and was greeted with the
horrifying images of his mentor, US Navy SEAL Scott Helvenston,
being brutally murdered in a premeditated ambush on the roads of
Fallujah, Iraq. Steeled in his resolve, Chad followed in Scott's
footsteps and completed the US military's most difficult and
grueling training to become a Navy SEAL. One of only 13 from a
class of 173 to make it straight through to graduation, Chad served
his country on SEAL Teams One and Seven for five years, completing
tours of duty in the Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, and
Iraq.Part memoir, part evangelism piece, "SEAL of God" follows
Chad's journey through the grueling Naval Ops training and onto the
streets of Iraq, where he witnessed the horrors of war up close.
Along the way, Chad shares his own radical conversion story and
talks about how he draws on his own experiences as a SEAL to help
others better understand the depths of Christ's sacrifice and love.
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.
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.
This text introduces you to both primary sources -- straight from
the frontlines of history -- and analytical essays, and is designed
to encourage critical thinking about the history and culture of
African Americans. The carefully selected readings give you many
opportunities to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations
of distinguished historians, and draw your own conclusions.
Krauthamer and Williams' text introduces students to both primary
sources and analytical essays and is designed to encourage critical
thinking about the history and culture of African Americans.
Updated to cover a wider geographic scope that includes the western
United States and other parts of the Diaspora, the product presents
a carefully selected group of readings organized to allow students
to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of
distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions. The
second edition is also available with MindTap, an online teaching
and learning platform that includes the complete text in digital
format along with chapter- and unit-level assessments such as map
activities; multiple-choice, auto-graded questions to assess
students' understanding of historical argumentation; brief
reflection-style essay responses; and unit-level essays. Each
chapter of the MindTap also includes an additional digital-only
essay not found in print.
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