A review by mkinne
Charleston Syllabus: Readings on Race, Racism, and Racial Violence by

5.0

This is definitely a syllabus and academic, but still largely accessible to this out-of-practice reader of academia. As I got further into the book it became harder to read because events and situations are arranged chronologically so that by the time I got to the last few essays about prejudice & racism in suburban Chicago, it was only a handful of years before I moved there as an adult with my husband and children & I feel complicit in the whole rotten system (because of this and other reading). Still, this was eye-opening to me in so many ways and I'm glad to have read it and have it in my library to go back to when needed, and I'm sure I'll be going back to re-read portions of it.