Charlottesville 2017 : The Legacy of Race and Inequity / edited by Claudrena N. Harold and Louis P. Nelson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harold, Claudrena N., editor.

Nelson, Louis P., editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Civil rights.

African Americans.

Unite the Right Rally, Charlottesville, Va., 2017.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 pages)

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2018]

Summary:

"In this collection of essays, University of Virginia faculty address the violent events of August 2017 in Charlottesville, relating them to the community's history of racial inequality and its outlook going forward. The essays approach the issue from a range of disciplines, from history, African American studies, and law to English, education, medicine, music, and religious studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Foreword / by Grace Elizabeth Hale

Chronology

Introduction: Dialogues on Race and Inequity at the University of Virginia

Remembering: Historical Considerations History, Mine and Ours: Charlottesville's Blue Ribbon Commission and the Terror Attacks of August 2017 / John Edwin Mason

The Original False Equivalency / Elizabeth R. Varon

"Vae Victis!": Antisemitism as Self-Victimization (and What Spinoza Knew about It) / Asher D. Biemann

Speaking: Political Perspectives In the Shadow of the First Amendment / Frederick Schauer

The Answers and the Questions in First Amendment Law / Leslie Kendrick

Where Do We Go from Here? / Risa Goluboff

Listening: Critical Engagements / "This Class of Persons": When UVA's White Supremacist Past Meets Its Future / Lisa Woolfork

Eugenics at the University of Virginia and Its Legacy in Health Disparities / P. Preston Reynolds

No Ordinary Sacrifice: The Struggle for Racial Justice at the University of Virginia in the Post-Civil Rights Era / Claudrena N. Harold

On Listening / Bonnie Gordon

Responding: Ethical Commitments

Ethics under Pressure: An Autoethnography of Moral Trauma / Willis Jenkins

Dialogue in Bad Times / Rachel Wahl

How I Learned That Diversity Does Not Equal Integration / Gregory B. Fairchild

Race, Place, and the Social Responsibilities of UVA in the Aftermath of August 11 and 12 / Shadow of the First Amendment / Frederick Schauer

Race, Place, and the Social Responsibilities of UVA in the Aftermath of August 11 and 12 / Guian McKee

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813941912

0813941911