Reading List Reading List: American Education and the Legacies of American Slavery 7 Mar 20248 Mar 2024 An anti-literacy statute enacted in South Carolina in 1740, prohibiting education for enslaved Africans, is evidence that racial discrimination in American education is older than the nation itself. White slaveholders…
Reading List Reading List: Racial Violence and Resistance (II) 29 Feb 202429 Feb 2024 This is the second part of a curated reading list on the theme of racial violence and resistance. If you missed the first, you can visit that list here. The…
Reading List Reading List: Racial Violence and Resistance (I) 22 Feb 2024 Violence against African Americans has been a persistent feature of American life—which is why "racial violence and resistance" is one of the organizing themes of the Legacies of American Slavery…
