{"id":9253,"date":"2015-07-01T03:00:56","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/?p=9253"},"modified":"2015-06-30T17:25:52","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T00:25:52","slug":"charlestonsyllabus-a-reading-list-to-contextualize-the-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educatorinnovator.org\/charlestonsyllabus-a-reading-list-to-contextualize-the-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"#CharlestonSyllabus: A Reading List to Contextualize the Massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, when the unrest in Ferguson, Mo. began, Marcia Chatelein, a Georgetown professor, crowdsourced a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2014\/08\/how-to-teach-kids-about-whats-happening-in-ferguson\/379049\/\" target=\"_blank\">reading list<\/a> about race, African-American history, civil rights, and policing by collecting suggestions via the Twitter hashtag <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/fergusonsyllabus\" target=\"_blank\">#FergusonSyllabus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the 10 months since, in Baltimore, Staten Island, North Charleston, and Cleveland, unarmed black men have died at the hands of police officers, each time \u201cunleashing a torrent of anguish and soul-searching about race in America,\u201d Lydia Polgreen writes in \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/21\/us\/from-ferguson-to-charleston-and-beyond-anguish-about-race-keeps-building.html\" target=\"_blank\">From Ferguson to Charleston and Beyond, Anguish About Race Keeps Building<\/a>.\u201d And each time, parents, teachers, clergy, and others have come together, online, and in person, to think about how these events, and the questions they raise, should be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=6554\" target=\"_blank\">reflected in classrooms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now Chad Williams, chair of the Brandeis University African and Afro-American Studies Department, has conceived a new hashtag, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CharlestonSyllabus\" target=\"_blank\">#CharlestonSyllabus<\/a>, to <a href=\"http:\/\/aaihs.org\/resources\/charlestonsyllabus\/\" target=\"_blank\">crowdsource a list<\/a> that provides information about the history of racial violence in the United States, and contextualizes the history of race relations in South Carolina and the country in general:<\/p>\n<blockquote align=\"center\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What to read to understand Charleston attack: A crowdsourced syllabus <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/2MgNSAEEG5\">http:\/\/t.co\/2MgNSAEEG5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CharlestonSyllabus?src=hash\">#CharlestonSyllabus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chad Williams (@Dr_ChadWilliams) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dr_ChadWilliams\/status\/613068894429945857\">June 22, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learning.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/23\/charlestonsyllabus-a-reading-list-to-contextualize-the-massacre\/?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">On the New York Times Learning Network site<\/a>, you&#8217;ll find a collection of Times articles, Opinion pieces, and multimedia about Charleston published since June 17 and, like all of the content there, free to teachers and students without a digital subscription.<\/p>\n<p><em>By The Learning Network<br \/>\nOriginal Post\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/learning.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/06\/23\/charlestonsyllabus-a-reading-list-to-contextualize-the-massacre\/?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times Learning Network<\/a><br \/>\nPhoto\/ Travis Dove for The New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our partner, The Learning Network, introduces the origins of #CharlestonSyllabus&mdash;a crowdsourced list that provides information about the history of racial violence in the United States&mdash;and provides a collection of resources from the <em>New York Times<\/em> that&#8217;s free to students and teachers.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt 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