Other ‘advanced nations’ make it far harder for someone like the Charleston killer to get his hands on a Glock semiautomatic handgun or any other kind of firearm.
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Do academics need to change the way they teach race? What is the impact of students having been socialized to believe that “race doesn’t matter”?
Does the Confederate flag tell African American citizens that they are inferior? And if so, does that violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?
If Americans are hiding behind the explosion of diversity to avoid looking at racism, what can universities do about it? A lot.
Historically, Republican politicians have subtly – and not-so-subtly – exploited racial fears.
Why studying South Carolina’s history led to one graduate student’s activism – and how that experience informs his reflections on the Charleston killing.
While the Charleston shooting is unusually horrifying, many of the themes of this tragedy are symptomatic of the nature of hate violence in our country
So long as we treat each mass shooting, each black death as an isolated tragedy, there’s nothing we can do. Things can change if we look for the patterns.
The killing of nine people in Charleston’s AME Church was motivated by racism, first and foremost, but also sexism.
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Professor of Political Science, University of Washington
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Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Washington
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Chancellor, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate Professor, Political Science, Emory University
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Paul and Charlene Jones Chair in Law, University of Alabama
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Birmingham-Southern College
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Associate Professor of Social Work; McSilver Faculty Fellow, New York University
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Professor of History, Emory University
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Professor of Sociology, Tulane University
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Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Lancaster University
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Professor of Africana Studies and Art & Design, University of Delaware
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Samuel J. and Augusta Spector Professor of History and African and African American Studies, Brandeis University
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Professor, Department of Human and Organizational Development, Peabody College, and the Divinity School, Vanderbilt University
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C. Wendell and Edith M. Carlsmith Professor of Law, Stanford University
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Professor of Post Conflict Studies, Queen's University Belfast